Arnel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑːnəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arnel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 702(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 4.2K
- USUnited States1 in 122K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 702 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arnel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #176 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 702 | 179K | Arnel | 109 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Arnel | 36 |
| US United States | — | 2,728 | 1 in 122K | 2.6K | Arnel | 239 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Arnel | 6 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Arnel | 25 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 195 | 1 in 11K | 196 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Arnel | 13 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the id-github-names register; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Arnel Dedićb. 1976BACroatian basketball player and coach
- Arnel Tacib. 1986DEGerman actor
- Lex Lugerb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican record producer
- Arnel Amitab. 1995PHFilipino 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)
Attested in 53 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,020 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 196 | #1,021 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 195 | #514 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 179 | #532 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 165 | #550 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 154 | #560 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 101 | #6,020 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 6 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2020 | 5 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Arnel a male or female name?
- Arnel 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.
- How do you pronounce Arnel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑːnəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Arnel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 156 thousand people named Arnel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arnel.
- How common is the name Arnel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,728 people named Arnel in 2020, about 1 in 122 thousand residents.
- How common is Arnel compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Arnel is the 176th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Arnel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arnelThe 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, “Arnel” — the 176th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.