Arles

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Arles (a city in Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)

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

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

Arles is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance
  • BRBrazil

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
87 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

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:

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)

Arles (a city in Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arles counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Arles is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—41Arles1
BR Brazil—433Arles41
US United States—355—87
CR Costa Rica—52—9
ES Spain—43—30
FI Finland—42—1

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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Arles is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Arlés, Arlès

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Arlès

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Arlès, Arlés

  • French name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Arles-Sur-Tech, Arlés

41 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Arles 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 English, v. ARLISS

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In Catalan, Arles-sur-Tech (a town and commune of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia)

    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)

17501800185019001950François Barthélemy Arlès-Dufour, b. 1797Fernand Arles, b. 1894Luis Molina Arles, b. 1949

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 35 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Arles
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—433#6,782
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—418#16,019
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022394—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—365#15,755
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020355#24,274
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2000334—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990244—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980138—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1980106—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—91#67,906
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)199090—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)197082—

Reference works 3

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Arles mean, and where does it come from?
Arles (a city in Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Arles?
A machine transcription gives /aʁl/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Arles have the most bearers?
Arles is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled arles.

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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, “Arles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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