Arsenio is a boy's name of Portuguese origin meaning “masculine, virile.” In 2024 it was given to 16 boys in the United States.
Arsenio at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Portuguese
Meaning
“masculine, virile”
About the name Arsenio
Arsenio belongs to the Portuguese tradition. Its meaning — “masculine, virile” — is the sense carried by its Portuguese roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Arsenio first appears in Social Security records in 1913. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #479 in 1989, and in 2024 16 babies received the name — 2,191 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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