Boy · Greek
Arseny
Say it: ar-SYEH-nee
Meaning
From Greek arsen 'male, virile'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A monastic name in old Russia, fashionable again since the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 29 babies given this name since 2009
- At its height in 2018, about 1 in 226,300 boys
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Arseniy, Арсений
| Ukrainian | Arsenii |
|---|---|
| Serbian | Arsenije |
| Greek | Arsenios |
Famous bearers
- Arsenije III Čarnojević, Serbian patriarch
- Arseny Tarkovsky, poet
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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