Árzu

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Árzu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish آرزو, from Persian آرزو (ârezu).

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 38K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 56K
  • SESweden1 in 63K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

525 people, 2020

Sources
143 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Arzu in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

Derivation of Árzu: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Árzu
  1. Ottoman Turkishآرزو(measured from records)
  2. Persianآرزوârezu(measured from records)

From Ottoman Turkish آرزو, from Persian آرزو (ârezu).

Sources 5

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Árzu 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.

Where Árzu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5251 in 634K1.4KArzu143
NL Netherlands4561 in 38K456Arzu6
PL Poland1791 in 214K129——
SE Sweden1611 in 63K161—1
DK Denmark1041 in 56K101——
LV Latvia111 in 171K12——

525 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Árzu under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Árzu mean, and where does it come from?
From Ottoman Turkish آرزو, from Persian آرزو (ârezu). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
Is Árzu a male or female name?
Árzu 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 Árzu have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 525 people named Árzu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arzu.
Where is Árzu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Árzu is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Árzu?
In the United States, the national register counted 525 people named Árzu in 2020, about 1 in 634 thousand residents.

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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, “Árzu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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