Arsema
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 19 babies a year in England and Wales.
Arsema by the numbers
In 2025, 19 babies in England and Wales were named Arsema. In the US, 43 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 60 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Arsema
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 Arsema. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Arsiema6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Arielalion of god; female form of ariel149 in the US (2017)
- Areebaeloquent; intelligent31 in England and Wales (2025)
- Arlenaeagle; a form of Arlene18 in the US (2017)
- Aleemalearned; wise; form of Alima8 in the US (2017)
- Arleaeagle wood; from arley6 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Arsema
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