Arsiah
Masculine
Arsiah is a recent American coinage on the -iah ending, the suffix that Isaiah, Josiah and Zachariah made one of the busiest in modern naming.
How old is the name Arsiah?
Arsiah first appears in US birth records in 2024 — 1 years ago. Arsiah is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Arsiahs are still in diapers. Fewer than a hundred people named Arsiah are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
When was the name Arsiah most popular?
Arsiah peaked in 2025, reaching #1808 nationally. Today it ranks #1808, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Arsiah
Our story of Arsiah is a story of a suffix that stopped carrying its own weight. The -iah of Isaiah and Josiah is the divine name, and every biblical name that ends in it is making a statement about God. By the 2000s American naming had detached the sound and was attaching it to fronts that make no such claim — Amariah, Zariah, Arsiah. The ending has a real and specific origin; this compound does not descend from it, and both facts are worth saying.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No established etymology. The -iah ending descends from the Hebrew Yah, the divine name, which closes Isaiah, Jeremiah and Josiah; here it functions as a sound rather than an element. The Ars- front is not documented. Honest sources record it as a modern coinage.
Pronouncing Arsiah
AR-see-uh
Three syllables, stress on the first. Some bearers say ar-SY-uh with the stress in the middle.
Nicknames for Arsiah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
- First recorded
- 2024
- Most boys named
- 202588 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1808reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +1157.1%88 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Arsiah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Arsia in English — spelling variant
- Amariah in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, North Carolina.
Arsiahs among us
Fewer than a hundred people named Arsiah are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
About 1 boy in 19,410 born in 2025 was named Arsiah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tayvion test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Arsiah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tayvion climbed just as high around 2006, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tayvion's path sketches the road Arsiah is walking now.
Arsiah is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Arsiah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Arsiah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Siah is available as a short form shared with several biblical names.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- It is genuinely rare and immediately distinctive.
- There is no inherited meaning, and honest sources say so.
- The stress placement splits between two readings.
- It will need spelling out every single time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Arsiahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. Fewer than a hundred people named Arsiah are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
- How popular is the name Arsiah in 2025?
- Arsiah ranks #1808 among US boy names in 2025, with 88 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Arsiah?
- About 1 in every 19,410 US boys born in 2025 was named Arsiah — 88 in all.
- Will my child share the name Arsiah with classmates?
- Arsiah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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