Arias
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: feminine plural of ario
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Arias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 77(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 206
- ECEcuador1 in 327
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- #415 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 449 (measured from records)
- 1 in 77 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
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)
from the medieval Spanish male personal name Arias, perhaps of Germanic origin.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Arias is read(measured from records)
Arias 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.
- Spanish77%
feminine plural of ario
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.9%
from the medieval Spanish male personal name Arias, perhaps of Germanic origin.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Arias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #31 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 332 | 113 | Arias | 208 |
| AR Argentina | #62 | 96,005 | 1 in 474 | 96K | Arias | 148 |
| CR Costa Rica | #10 | 66,304 | 1 in 77 | 66K | Arias | 137 |
| VE Venezuela | #81 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 456 | — | Arias | 92 |
| US United States | — | 57,477 | 1 in 5.8K | 59K | Arias | 449 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 51,648 | 1 in 327 | 52K | Arias | 95 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #27 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 206 | — | Arias | 93 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 9,266 | 1 in 366 | 9.3K | — | 70 |
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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; 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)
Arias is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, indefinite genitive 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)
- Carlos Arias Navarrob. 1908ESSpanish politician (1908–1989)
- Óscar Ariasb. 1941CRPresident of Costa Rica (1986–1990, 2006–2010)
- Pablo Milanésb. 1943CUnot in their usual nameCuban musician (1943–2022)
- Imanol Ariasb. 1956ESSpanish actor and film director (born 1956)
- Yancey Ariasb. 1971USAmerican actor
- David Ortizb. 1975DOnot in their usual nameDominican-American professional baseball player (born 1975)
- Berni Rodríguezb. 1980ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1980)
- Santiago Ariasb. 1992COColombian association football player
- Malumab. 1994COnot in their usual nameColombian singer
- Moisés Ariasb. 1994USAmerican actor
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 57 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 96K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 66K | #20 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 59K | #562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 57K | #581 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 52K | #62 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 40K | #787 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 9.3K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 472 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 113 | #25 |
| 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 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- 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
- Where does the name Arias come from?
- from the medieval Spanish male personal name Arias, perhaps of Germanic origin. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Arias?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 96,005 people named Arias, about 1 in 474 residents.
- How common is Arias compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Arias is the 31st most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Arias mean?
- In Spanish, feminine plural of ario
- In which country does Arias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 148 thousand people named Arias in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arias.
- Where is Arias most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arias is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 77 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ariasThe 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, “Arias” — the 31st most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.