Arth
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɑɹθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a German surname, variant of Art, for which see Artman, or otherwise related to Ort (“point, end”).
- USUnited States1 in 470K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 232K
- FRFrance≈1 in 277K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 232K (inferred from the name graph)
708 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle High Germanze(measured from records)
- Old High GermanArta(measured from records)
* As a German surname, variant of Art, for which see Artman, or otherwise related to Ort (“point, end”). * The place in Switzerland is from Middle High German ze Arth, from Old High German Arta, which is said mean to something like "plowed land," from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic *arþrą (“plow”). However, compare *ardiz (“nature, character”), the source of Old English eard (“homeland, dwelling, land”).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arth 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 | 708 | 1 in 470K | 724 | Arth | 191 |
| IN India | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | 5 | Arth | 57 |
| FR France | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 277K | 25 | — | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Arth | 3 |
| BR Brazil | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 116 | — | — |
| PL Poland | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 661K | 4 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | Arth | 4 |
708 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Arth is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kw, bear (mammal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, bear
as a wordkaikki.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)
- Georges-Marie-Florent Arthb. 1853FRFrench chemist
- Tom Arthb. 1981USAmerican 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 215 | #36,405 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 116 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 111 | #37,144 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 88 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 64 | #43,881 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 57 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 31 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 21 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 20 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Arth?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑɹθ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Arth mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a German surname, variant of Art, for which see Artman, or otherwise related to Ort (“point, end”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Arth have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 708 people named Arth, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arth.
- How common is the name Arth?
- In the United States, the national register counted 708 people named Arth in 2010, about 1 in 470 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arthThe 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, “Arth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.