Arduino
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arduino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Italian, recorded as Germanico *Hirdwin, da hart ‘forte’ + win ‘amico’.
- UYUruguay1 in 25K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 78K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
580 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanico *Hirdwin, da hart ‘forte’ + win ‘amico’.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Arduino is read(measured from records)
Arduino is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Spanish44%
Germánico Hardwin, de hard 'fuerte, audaz' + win 'amigo'; 'amigo audaz'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English30%
Giovanni, Italian geologist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese9.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Arduino in Portuguese.
- Italian6.9%
Germanico *Hirdwin, da hart ‘forte’ + win ‘amico’.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
forma italiana de Arduinus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Arduino in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Arduino 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 | 580 | 1 in 78K | 580 | — | — |
| US United States | 266 | 1 in 1.3M | 278 | Arduino | 43 |
| UY Uruguay | 133 | 1 in 25K | 133 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 31 | 1 in 1.6M | 31 | Arduino | 6 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 3 |
580 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Arduino 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.
Italian form of Germanic Hartwin ‘staunch friend’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Amico valoroso
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Giovanni Arduinob. 1713ITItalian geologist (1714–1795)
- Pietro Arduinob. 1728ITItalian botanist (1728-1805)
- Luigi Arduinob. 1759ITItalian agriculturalist, author and professor
- Eugenio Arduinob. 1846ITItalian painter (1846-1917)
- Ettore Arduinob. 1877ITItalian politician and publicist (1877-1934)
- Camillo Arduinob. 1896ITcyclist
- Michele Alberto Arduinob. 1909ITRoman Catholic bishop
- Gino Arduinob. 1917ITItalian record producer (1917-1988)
- Matilde Arduino Olivarib. 1931ITItalian librarian (1931-2010)
- Giovanni Arduinob. 1966ITItalian writer
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 38 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1945 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1947 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1932 | 2 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1953 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Arduino mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanico *Hirdwin, da hart ‘forte’ + win ‘amico’. Recorded by Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani.
- In which country does Arduino have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 580 people named Arduino, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Arduino most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arduino is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arduino?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 580 people named Arduino, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Arduino?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arduinoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Arduino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.