Given name & surname
Arba
“four”
Arba is a feminine given name. It is used in Albanian.
Original Hebrewארבע
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Arba means “four.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Arba is a biblical name from Hebrew.
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1898. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Arba appears in Joshua 14:15.
From biblical name research
Arba through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63
- 47 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 11 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 1938. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1898. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 147 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Arba’s family of names
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Arba
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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