# Arnaldo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/arnaldo/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,083 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,083 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 6,608 |
| 2012 | 15 | 5,734 |
| 2013 | 15 | 5,678 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,195 |
| 2015 | 14 | 6,018 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,183 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,202 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,209 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7,216 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,473 |
| 2021 | 14 | 6,053 |
| 2022 | 12 | 6,864 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,556 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,368 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,182 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |

## People named Arnaldo

- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Cuban cosmonaut
- Arnaldo Otegi, Basque pro-independence politician
- Arnaldo Ochoa, Cuban general (1940-1989)
- Arnaldo Mesa, boxer (1967–2012)
- Arnaldo Cézar Coelho, Brazilian football referee
- Arnaldo Jabor, Brazilian film director (1940–2022)
- Arnaldo da Silva, Brazilian athletics competitor (born 1964)
- Arnaldo Antunes, Brazilian musician and writer
- Arnaldo Sánchez Catalán, Catholic Archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to Rwanda
- Arnaldo Baptista, Brazilian musician
- Arnaldo da Silveira, Brazilian association football player (1894-1980)
- Arnaldo Cohen, Brazilian pianist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.