Arsénio

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: arsenic

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɐɾsɛnju/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Arsénio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 80th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.6K
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 5.7K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈42,000 people, est.

Sources
223 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Arsenio in PH Philippines, AR Argentina, US United States and 4 more.

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)

arsenic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

How Arsénio is read(measured from records)

Arsénio 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.

  • Portuguese87%

    arsenic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French7.7%

    Variante d’Arsène, du grec arsenikos « viril »; fêté avec saint Arsène (19 juillet).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Arsénio 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.

Where Arsénio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#829≈42,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K23KArsenio67
MZ Mozambique#80≈14,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K1Arsenio24
ID Indonesia—≈6,900 est.≈1 in 38K—Arsenio40
PY Paraguay#202≈4,300 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Arsenio28
US United States—3,2811 in 101K3.3KArsenio223
AR Argentina#854≈3,000 est.≈1 in 15K13Arsenio41
DO Dominican Republic#256≈1,800 est.≈1 in 5.7K—Arsenio26

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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).

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

Arsénio is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Arsenio, Arsênio, Arsenîo, Ärsënïö, Arsënio

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Arsênio, Arsenio

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Арсенио, Arsenio, Арсеніо, Arsênio

2 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Arsen Iqaltoeli, b. 1050Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antón, b. 1831Arsenio Linares y Pombo, b. 1848Arsenio Rodríguez, b. 1911Arsenio Lacson, b. 1911Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, b. 1924Arsenio Iglesias, b. 1930Arsenio Hall, b. 1956Arsenio Valpoort, b. 1992Arseni Khachaturan, b. 1993

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)

FormalPrezado Sr. Arsénio,Dear Mr Arsénio, (English)
InformalOlá Arsénio,Hi Arsénio, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

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 Arsénio mean, and where does it come from?
arsenic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Arsénio?
A machine transcription gives /ɐɾsɛnju/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Arsénio have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Arsénio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arsenio.
How common is the name Arsénio?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,281 people named Arsénio in 2020, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
How common is Arsénio compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Arsénio is the 829th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

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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, “Arsénio” — the 829th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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