Arsène
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/aʁ.sɛn/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Arsène is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 55th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Ἀρσένιος (Arsénios).
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 5.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 11Kfew records
- GAGabon≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arsene in US United States.
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 Ancient Greek Ἀρσένιος (Arsénios).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arsène 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #340 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 1 | Arsène | 13 |
| MG Madagascar | #555 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 1 | Arsène | 8 |
| CM Cameroon | #465 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Arsène | 11 |
| BJ Benin | #388 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Arsène | 11 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Arsène | 11 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #55 | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Arsène | 7 |
| US United States | — | 335 | 1 in 993K | 321 | Arsene | 95 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Arsène Lambertb. 1834FRFrench politician (1834–1901)
- Arsène Darmesteterb. 1846FRFrench philologist (1846-1888)
- Jules-Arsène Garnierb. 1847FRFrench painter (1847-1889)
- Arsène Alexandreb. 1859FRFrench art critic (1859-1937)
- Arsène Pujob. 1861USAmerican politician
- Arsène Merschb. 1913LURoad bicycle racer (1913-1980)
- Arsène Wengerb. 1949FRFrench football manager
- Arsène Augusteb. 1951HTHaitian footballer (1951–1993)
- Didier Domib. 1978FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1978)
- Arsène Néb. 1981CIIvorian footballer
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #460 |
| MG Madagascar | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #176 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Arsène mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek Ἀρσένιος (Arsénios). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Arsène a male or female name?
- Arsène is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024).
- What are other forms of the name Arsène?
- In the etymology graph, Arsenio, Arsen and Arseniy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Arsène?
- In French /aʁ.sɛn/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Arsène have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Arsène in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arsène.
- How common is the name Arsène?
- In the United States, the national register counted 335 people named Arsène in 2020, about 1 in 993 thousand residents.
- How common is Arsène compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Arsène is the 340th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ars%C3%A8neThe 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, “Arsène” — the 340th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.