Arcella
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arcella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a space, under the altar of early Christian churches, in which relics were stored.
- ARArgentina1 in 406K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M
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)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 406K (inferred from the name graph)
114 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a space, under the altar of early Christian churches, in which relics were stored
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arcella 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 114 | 1 in 2.9M | 115 | Arcella | 25 |
| AR Argentina | 112 | 1 in 406K | 112 | Arcella | 27 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | Arcella | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
114 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Arcella is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, A small box
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sarkodīnu klases čaulamēbu kārtas ģints
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Fabio Arcellab. 1450ITRoman Catholic archbishop
- Luciano Arcellab. 1947ITItalian historian of religion (born 1947)
- Salvatore Arcella1934-
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Arcella mean, and where does it come from?
- a space, under the altar of early Christian churches, in which relics were stored Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Arcella have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 114 people named Arcella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arcella.
- Where is Arcella most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arcella is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 406 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arcella?
- In the United States, the national register counted 114 people named Arcella in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arcellaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Arcella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.