# Arvid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/arvid/  
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 | Norse |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,167 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,167 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 30, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from North Germanic (Danish Arvid, Swedish Arvid, Norwegian Arvid).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | 10,055 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,611 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,174 |
| 2009 | 7 | 9,947 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12,400 |
| 2014 | 6 | 10,824 |
| 2016 | 8 | 8,900 |
| 2018 | 8 | 8,894 |
| 2019 | 16 | 5,575 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,003 |
| 2021 | 17 | 5,361 |
| 2022 | 10 | 7,806 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,316 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,058 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,323 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## In other languages

- Danish: Arvid
- Estonian: Arvid, Arved
- Finnish: Arvi
- Latvian: Arvīds
- Norwegian: Arvid
- Russian: А́рвид
- Swedish: Arvid

## People named Arvid

- Arvid Lindblad, British racing driver
- Arvid Genetz, Finnish writer, politician and linguist (1848-1915)
- Arvid Järnefelt, Finnish jurist and writer (1861–1932)
- Arvid Spångberg, diver (1890–1959)
- Arvid Wallman, diver (1901–1982)
- Arvid de Kleijn, Dutch cyclist
- Arvid Wittenberg, Field Marshal of Sweden (1606-1657)
- Arvid Harnack, German jurist, economist, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (1901–1942)
- Arvid E. Gillstrom, film director (1889–1935)
- Arvid Mörne, Finland-Swedish poet, writer, and popular educator (1876–1946)
- Arvid Adolf Etholén, Finnish explorer (1799-1876)
- Arvid Kramer, American basketball player

## 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.