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How popular is the name Arwen?

Births per year, rank history and how many Arwens are alive today.

Arwen (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 551st in 2025 with 72 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2022, when 111 babies were given the name, the 382nd most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years.

The Arwen you are most likely to meet is around 3 years old. Half of all Arwens born in England and Wales are between 4 and 18, and there are at least 1,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Arwen - on average, only one in every 243 such rooms contains a Arwen.

How many babies are named Arwen each year?

050100200020201998: 52000: 32001: 72002: 282003: 502004: 582005: 532006: 342007: 372008: 352009: 382010: 332011: 472012: 632013: 422014: 532015: 392016: 482017: 532018: 612019: 602020: 662021: 502022: 1112023: 762024: 932025: 72actual

Where does Arwen rank among girls' names?

1101001,0005,000200020201998: ranked 2,7012000: ranked 3,9122001: ranked 2,2262002: ranked 8422003: ranked 5832004: ranked 5422005: ranked 6042006: ranked 8692007: ranked 8542008: ranked 9162009: ranked 8792010: ranked 1,0132011: ranked 7892012: ranked 6542013: ranked 8822014: ranked 7402015: ranked 9232016: ranked 8042017: ranked 7532018: ranked 6572019: ranked 6512020: ranked 5892021: ranked 7472022: ranked 3822023: ranked 5162024: ranked 4472025: ranked 551

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.

Common questions

When was the name Arwen most popular?

Arwen peaked in 2022, when 111 babies in England and Wales were given the name.

How many people are called Arwen?

At least 1,300 people named Arwen born in England and Wales are alive today.

How old is the typical Arwen?

Most living Arwens are between 4 and 18; the most common age is about 3.

Is Arwen becoming more or less popular?

Broadly steady in recent years.






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