Given name & surname
Arnette
“a little eagle”
Arnette is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a little eagle.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a little eagle.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1907. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arnette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,088
- 33 boys · 1,055 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 49 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 girls is 5 in 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 44 in 1959. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 851 as a first name in 2020; 2,373 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.
Arnette’s family of names
Arnette has a related form in Arnett. Arnette has a related form in Arnet. Arnette has a related form in Arneta.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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