Arséne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Greek Arsēnios, meaning 'virile, manly'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Arséne 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.
- FRFrance≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 993K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 10K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Arsène in FR France, CD Congo - Kinshasa, CM Cameroon and 3 more and 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 Greek Arsēnios, meaning 'virile, manly'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arséne 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 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Arsène | 13 |
| CM Cameroon | #465 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Arsène | 11 |
| MG Madagascar | #555 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Arsène | 8 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Arsène | 11 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 14K | Arsène | 134 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #55 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arséne mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Arsēnios, meaning 'virile, manly'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Arséne a male or female name?
- Arséne 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.
- In which country does Arséne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Arséne in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arsène.
- How common is the name Arséne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 335 people named Arséne in 2020, about 1 in 993 thousand residents.
- How common is Arséne compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Arséne is the 340th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ars%C3%A9neThe 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, “Arséne” — the 340th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.