Arian
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A supporter of the Cyrenaic monk Arius and his faction in the 4th-century Church
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛəɹiən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 49K
- BRBrazil1 in 164K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
6,730 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A supporter of the Cyrenaic monk Arius and his faction in the 4th-century Church.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Arian is read(measured from records)
Arian is one spelling over 3 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.
- English33%
A supporter of the Cyrenaic monk Arius and his faction in the 4th-century Church.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Arian in Spanish.
- German6.0%
männl. Vom., friesische und nieder ländische Nebenform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Arian 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 | 6,730 | 1 in 49K | 5.2K | Arian | 183 |
| PH Philippines | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Arian | 54 |
| BR Brazil | 1,289 | 1 in 164K | 1.3K | Arian | 57 |
| SE Sweden | 1,219 | 1 in 8.4K | 1.2K | Arian | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 580 | Arian | 18 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 2.6K | — | 3 |
| AL Albania | 840 | 1 in 3.7K | 840 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 781 | 1 in 7K | 2.9K | — | 7 |
| SI Slovenia | 206 | 1 in 10K | 215 | — | 1 |
6,730 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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Arian is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Arian har flera ursprung: det kan vara dels en nederländsk form av → Adrian, dels ett namn från persiskans ariya ’ädel’. Enligt vissa källor kan det även härröra från albanskan, då med betydelsen ’guld; gyllene’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Argenteo / Seguace di Ario
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Russian, "lion."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Swedish, definite singular of aria
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)
- Peter Smitb. 1949NLnot in their usual nameDutch university teacher
- Arian Rissbafb. 1976IRIranian actor
- Arian Nachbarb. 1977DEGerman speed skater
- Action Bronsonb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Arian Fosterb. 1986USAmerican football player
- Arian González Pérezb. 1988CUSpanish-Cuban chess player
- Arianb. 1989Danish musician
- Arian Kashefb. 1995DKDanish actor
- Arian Salimib. 2003IRIranian taekwondo practitioner
- Arian SalehUSIranian-American singer and songwriter
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 91 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.2K | #3,203 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 2.9K | #861 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2.6K | #263 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #3,203 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.2K | #1,486 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.1K | #8,501 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #6,976 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 840 | #578 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 789 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 781 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 580 | #2,913 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Arian?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛəɹiən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Arian mean, and where does it come from?
- A supporter of the Cyrenaic monk Arius and his faction in the 4th-century Church. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Arian have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Arian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arian.
- Is Arian a male or female name?
- Arian is a male 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.
- How common is the name Arian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,730 people named Arian in 2020, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arianThe 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, “Arian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.