Arold
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arold is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Patronym auf -old; zu ahd./altsächs.
- ARArgentina1 in 421K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 421K (inferred from the name graph)
183 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronym auf -old; zu ahd./altsächs. arn „Adler“, kontrahierte Form. 364 Belege; h-Ø in der Stellung nach Nasal/Liquid.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arold 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 | 183 | 1 in 1.8M | 198 | Arold | 23 |
| AR Argentina | 108 | 1 in 421K | 108 | Arold | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 51 | Arold | 21 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | Arold | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
183 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Arold 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 German, Patronymischer Name auf -(h)old; h/Ø-Variation. 364 Belege; Nest im Raum Ansbach–Nürnberg.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- August Aroldb. 1882EEEstonian teacher (1882–1947)
- August Aroldb. 1883DE(1883–?)
- Ivar Aroldb. 1931EEEstonian geographer (1931-2024)
- Mart Aroldb. 1944EEEstonian physicist and writer (1944-2014)
- Marliese Aroldb. 1958DEGerman author
- Stefan T. Aroldb. 1969SAresearcher
- Bernd Aroldb. 1974DEGerman cook
- Vanessa Aroldb. 1987FRFrench association football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 142 | #46,361 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 51 | #28,883 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 41 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #76,244 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #46,361 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Arold mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym auf -old; zu ahd./altsächs.
- In which country does Arold have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 183 people named Arold, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arold.
- Where is Arold most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arold is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 421 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arold?
- In the United States, the national register counted 183 people named Arold in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aroldThe 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, “Arold”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.