Arna
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 7 babies a year in England and Wales.
Arna by the numbers
In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Arna. In the US, 12 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 21 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Arna
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Arna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Ariamelody, air; lioness7,160 in the US (2017)
- Annagrace or favor4,528 in the US (2017)
- Aryanoble; honorable; aryan2,201 in the US (2017)
- Anagrace, favour; a form of Anna1,443 in the US (2017)
- Aarnaoceanic, of the sea, watery28 in England and Wales (2025)
- Arwafemale mountain goat or ibex133 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Arna
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