Given name & surname
Ar
“a merciful woman”
Ar is used as a given name and a surname. One Anglo-Saxon interpretation is “a merciful woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Anglo-Saxon interpretation is “a merciful woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Anglo-Saxon.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 749 as a first name in 2020; 262 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ar’s family of names
See also 7
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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