Árna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/ˈaurtna/(recorded in a dictionary) Icelandic · from Wiktionary
Árna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse árna, from Proto-Germanic *airinōną.
- ISIceland1 in 522(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 12K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 76Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- 1 in 522 (inferred from the name graph)
672 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arna in US United States, NO Norway, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old Norseárna(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*airinōną(measured from records)
From Old Norse árna, from Proto-Germanic *airinōną.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Árna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #302 | 672 | 1 in 522 | 672 | Arna | 53 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Arna | 21 |
| US United States | — | 476 | 1 in 699K | 443 | Arna | 154 |
| NO Norway | — | 465 | 1 in 12K | 1.3K | Arna | 30 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 1 | Arna | 79 |
| SE Sweden | — | 100 | 1 in 102K | 100 | Arna | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 11 | Arna | 41 |
| FI Finland | — | 54 | 1 in 103K | 107 | — | 3 |
672 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Árna mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse árna, from Proto-Germanic *airinōną. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Árna?
- In Icelandic /ˈaurtna/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Árna a male or female name?
- Árna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Árna have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 672 people named Árna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arna.
- Where is Árna most common?
- Árna is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 522 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Árna?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 672 people named Árna in 2026, about 1 in 522 residents.
- How common is Árna compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Árna is the 302nd most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Árna?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1rnaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Árna” — the 302nd most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.