Given name
Arvydas
Arvydas is a masculine given name. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arvydas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1954
- 5 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 1954. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 112 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.
Arvydas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Arvydas has a related form in ARVIDAS.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Arvydas
- Arvydas SabonisLithuanian basketball player and executiveborn 1964
- Arvydas NovikovasLithuanian association football playerborn 1990
- Arvydas MacijauskasLithuanian basketball player (born 1980)
- Arvydas JuozaitisLithuanian politician and swimmerborn 1956
- Arvydas JanonisLithuanian footballerborn 1960
- Arvydas AnušauskasLithuanian historian and politicianborn 1963
- Arvydas EitutavičiusLithuanian basketball player (born 1982)
- Arvydas PociusLithuanian generalborn 1957
- Arvydas SekmokasLithuanian politician and economistborn 1951
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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