Arcos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aɾkos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arcos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Arcos.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 4.2K
- ESSpain1 in 5.4K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
10,078 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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)
Borrowed from Spanish Arcos.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arcos 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.
10,078 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Arcos 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 Asturian, plural of arcu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, arcuate
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)
- René Arcosb. 1880FRFrench poet and writer (1881–1959)
- Óscar Avilésb. 1924PEnot in their usual namePeruvian guitarist, composer, singer, music producer (1924–2014)
- Gustavo Arcosb. 1926CUCuban politician (1926-2006)
- Sebastian Arcos Bergnesb. 1931CUCuban human rights activist
- Agustín Gómez-Arcosb. 1933ESSpanish writer (1933–1998)
- Andrés Vallejob. 1940ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian politician
- Cresencio S. Arcos, Jr.b. 1943USAmerican diplomat
- Damian Alvarez Arcosb. 1973MXMexican footballer
- Irene Arcosb. 1981ESSpanish actress
- Paula Arcosb. 2001ESSpanish handball player
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Arcos mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Arcos. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Arcos?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾkos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Arcos have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Arcos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arcos.
- Where is Arcos most common?
- Arcos is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Arcos?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 10,078 people named Arcos in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Arcos compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Arcos is the 429th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arcosThe 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, “Arcos” — the 429th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.