Given name
Arseny
“male, virile”
Arseny is a variant of Arseni. One Greek interpretation is “male, virile.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Arseny is a variant of Arseni. One Greek interpretation is “male, virile.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arseny through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 35
- 35 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,806 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. 10,806 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2018.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Arseny
- Arseny TarkovskySoviet poet and translator (1907–1989)
- Arseny RoginskyRussian historian, Soviet dissident and Memorial founder (1946-2017)
- Arseny ZverevSoviet politician (1900–1969)
- Arseny KoreshchenkoRussian classical music composer1870–1921
- Arseny VorozheykinSoviet aviator, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1914-2001)
- Arseni GritsyukRussian ice hockey playerborn 2001
- Arseny Golenishchev-KutuzovRussian writer (1848–1913)
- Arseny SokolovRussian Physicist (1910–1986)
- Arseny AvraamovRussian composer (1886-1944)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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