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Arsenio

Boy · ar-SEN-ee-oh · Greek

Arsenio is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “virile, masculine”. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).

What does Arsenio mean?

Greek: Spanish and Italian form of Arsenius

“virile, masculine”

St Arsenius the Great tutored the sons of a Roman emperor before becoming a hermit among the Desert Fathers of Egypt.

Say it
ar-SEN-ee-oh

Is Arsenio a girl's or a boy's name?

Arsenio is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Arsenio in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,606among boys
Babies in 2025
16about 1 in 110,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadymuch the same
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Arsenio, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,231st. Its busiest year was 1989, with 397 boys. It first appears in the records in 1913.

Half of all the boys named Arsenio in the US since 1880 were born between 1976 and 1992, the years shaded on the chart below.

1913Busiest: 397 in 19892025
Arsenio in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202516#5,606
202416#5,655
202322#4,606
202221#4,697
202123#4,358
202017#5,231
201916#5,551
201821#4,606
201715#5,784
201614#6,048
201518#5,056
201425#4,011
201322#4,311
201219#4,857
201117#5,196
201015#5,737
200921#4,580
200824#4,142
200713#6,259
200615#5,521
200511#6,628
20047#8,921
200315#5,030
200211#6,081
200110#6,438
200012#5,581
19999#6,524
199818#3,845
199710#5,636
199621#3,287
199517#3,687
199415#4,088
199322#3,036
199247#1,773
199146#1,738
1990188#740
1989397#479
1988124#853
198783#1,046
198621#2,508
198527#2,070
198453#1,264
198337#1,593
198212#3,481
198114#3,028
198013#3,255
197913#3,167
197813#3,069
197711#3,384
197615#2,708
19759#3,657
197416#2,457
197310#3,221
197214#2,533
197111#2,971
19708#3,519
19699#3,061
196812#2,444
19678#2,984
196611#2,464
19658#2,980
19649#2,853
19638#3,043
196215#2,116
196111#2,536
196015#2,120
195913#2,294
195811#2,504
195714#2,189
195612#2,359
195510#2,557
19540–
19537#3,142
19525#3,731
19518#2,842
19505#3,678
19490–
19489#2,607
19470–
19460–
19450–
19440–
19435#3,536
19420–
19415#3,504
19409#2,478
19396#3,112
19386#3,174
193717#1,688
193610#2,301
193512#2,127
193414#1,932
193313#1,997
193211#2,313
193114#2,003
193012#2,292
19299#2,764
192812#2,387
192718#1,871
192618#1,846
192510#2,753
192411#2,641
19236#3,819
192210#2,800
19217#3,516
19209#2,966
19190–
19187#3,367
19176#3,543
19168#2,925
19156#3,391
19140–
19136#2,495

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