Arn

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Aern in IL Israel.

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)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Arn is read●(measured from records)

Arn is one spelling over 4 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.

• English64%

  Initialism of Amazon resource name.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish9.1%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Arn in Spanish.

• German6.6%

  short form; from an Arn- name stem, ultimately 'eagle'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• French5.3%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Arn 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Arn is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Switzerland, Spain

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Ãřñ

• Norwegian surname9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Switzerland, Norway

  Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic

  Also written Ãrn

• French surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Ârn

• Estonian surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Switzerland, United States, Finland

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Arn 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, Arn är en tysk kortform till namn på → Ar(i)n-, t.ex. → Arnold. Namnet har i Sverige inspirerats av romanfiguren Arn Magnusson i Jan Guillous trilogi (1998–2000), som utspelar sig på 1100-talet. En korrekt bildad fornsvensk kortform skulle dock ha varit Arne eller Örn.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• 1 Jewish: Yiddish contracted form of AARON . 2 English: short form of ARNOLD , of recent origin. Pet form: Arnie . Top

  as a word

• In goh, alternative form of aro (“eagle”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In enm, alternative form of ern (“eagle”)

  as a word·kaikki.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)

• An Jung-geunb. 1879KPnot in their usual nameKorean independence activist (1879–1910)
• Philip Ahnb. 1905USnot in their usual nameKorean-American actor (1905–1978)
• Ahn Cheol-soob. 1962KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician, medical doctor, businessperson, software entrepreneur and tenured professor
• Ahn Jung-hwanb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
• An Yong-hakb. 1978KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean association football player
• Andrew Ahnb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker
• Viktor Ahnb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameKorean-Russian short track speed skater
• An Ba-ulb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean judoka
• Ahn Hyo-seopb. 1995CAnot in their usual nameCanadian-Korean actor and singer
• An Se-youngb. 2002KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean badminton 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)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Arn come from?

short form; from an Arn- name stem, ultimately 'eagle' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.

How do you pronounce Arn?

A machine transcription gives /ˈɑɹn/ (IPA) for English.

What does the name Arn mean?

In English, Initialism of Amazon resource name.

What are other forms of the name Arn?

In the etymology graph, Arndt, Arend and Arnau are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Arnold.

In which country does Arn have the most bearers?

In Israel, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named אהרן, more than in any other country we hold.

Where is Arn most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arn is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 8.0 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Arn?

In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,045 people named Arn in 2024, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.

How common is Arn compared with other names?

In Barbados, Arn is the 714th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.