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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Arba

Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

47

peak year 1898

More common than

50%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1898
8 births
Best rank
#806
in 1898
First recorded
1898
#806 that year
Last recorded
1938
no later published record
Average birth year
1921
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
8 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 18988#806Peak
  2. 19207#3,507
  3. 19166#3,532
  4. 19236#3,838
  5. 19265#4,235

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #806 in 1898 · peak births 8 in 1898

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 75% boys■ 25% girls

47 boys · 16 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Arba has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.