Given name
Arpad
“a wanderer; voyager”
Arpad is a variant of Arvad. One Hebrew interpretation is “a wanderer; voyager.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Arpad is a variant of Arvad. One Hebrew interpretation is “a wanderer; voyager.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Arpad is a variant of Arvad. An origin associated with Arvad is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arpad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 44
- 44 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 6 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 6 in 1964. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 389 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.
Arpad’s family of names
Arpad has a related form in Arvad. In German usage, Arpad has a conventional equivalent in the Hungarian form Árpád.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Arpad
- Arpad SterbikSpanish handball playerborn 1979
- Arpad WigandSS oberfuhrer (1906-1983)
- Arpad Joó(1948-2014) Hungarian born conductor
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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