Arce
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: by a prominent maple tree, Sp. arce (metathesized from L acer, gen. aceris). 2
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aɾθe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arce is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 42nd most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 162(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 401
- ARArgentina1 in 669
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- 1 in 162 (inferred from the name graph)
68,029 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
by a prominent maple tree, Sp. arce (metathesized from L acer, gen. aceris). 2. habitation name from places in the provinces of San¬ tander and Navarre, whose names represent a Castilianized spelling of Basque artze stony place (from arri stone + the suffix of abundance -te(e)).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Arce is read(measured from records)
Arce is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish79%
by a prominent maple tree, Sp. arce (metathesized from L acer, gen. aceris). 2. habitation name from places in the provinces of San¬ tander and Navarre, whose names represent a Castilianized spelling of Basque artze stony place (from arri stone + the suffix of abundance -te(e)).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
maple tree
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
IVIanuel Jose, Salvadoran politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arce 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #103 | 68,029 | 1 in 669 | 68K | Arce | 112 |
| CR Costa Rica | #42 | 31,455 | 1 in 162 | 31K | Arce | 114 |
| PE Peru | #201 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Arce | 107 |
| US United States | — | 19,464 | 1 in 17K | 19K | Arce | 353 |
| PY Paraguay | #72 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 401 | — | Arce | 59 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 856 | — | Arce | 72 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,782 | 1 in 1.2K | 2.8K | — | 42 |
68,029 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Arce is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a small town in Frosinone, Lazio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, ablative singular of arx
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of ars
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Laura del Solb. 1961ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Luis Arceb. 1963BOBolivian politician and president of Bolivia from 2020 to 2025
- Chayanneb. 1968USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican singer
- Óscar Córdobab. 1970COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Raúl Díaz Arceb. 1970SVSalvadoran footballer
- Francisco Arceb. 1971PYParaguayan association football player and manager
- Enrique Arceb. 1972ESSpanish actor
- Pedro Miguel Arceb. 1976NINicaraguan actor (1976–2022)
- Juan Carlos Arceb. 1985BOBolivian association football player
- Tamara Salazarb. 1997ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian weightlifter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 68K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 31K | #67 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,844 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 19K | #1,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,249 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.8K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Arce mean, and where does it come from?
- by a prominent maple tree, Sp. arce (metathesized from L acer, gen. aceris). 2. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Arce?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾθe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Arce have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Arce, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arce.
- Where is Arce most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arce is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 162 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arce?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 68,029 people named Arce, about 1 in 669 residents.
- How common is Arce compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Arce is the 103rd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arceThe 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, “Arce” — the 103rd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.