# Arnaud (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/arnaud/  
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 | 15 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 36, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | 6,339 |
| 1991 | 5 | 8,298 |
| 2001 | 5 | 10,682 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 4 | 2,337 |
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,208 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |

## People named Arnaud

- Arnaud Clément, French tennis player
- Arnaud Démare, French cyclist
- Arnaud Montebourg, French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur
- Arnaud Kalimuendo, French footballer (born 2002)
- Arnaud Amalric, French archbishop
- Arnaud Di Pasquale, French tennis player
- Arnaud Desplechin, French film director and screenwriter (born 1960)
- Arnaud Denjoy, French mathematician (1884-1974)
- Arnaud Sutchuin, Cameroonian footballer
- Arnaud Nordin, French association football player
- Arnaud Tournant, French cyclist
- Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, French and Basque geographer (1815-1893)

## 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.