Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Arnol isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arnol through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 140
- 140 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,804 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,804 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 425 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.
Arnol’s family of names
Arnol may belong to the same name family as ARNOLL. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Arnol
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Arnol, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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96% boys · 4% girls
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“one who is handsome and adorned”
97% boys · 3% girls
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“strong as a bear”
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Adan
“man” · “of the earth”
99% boys · 1% girls