Arnis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arnis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name. In English, recorded as Traditional Philippine stickfighting, a martial art.
- LVLatvia1 in 444(measured from records)
- LTLithuania≈1 in 22K
- ALAlbania1 in 27K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 444 (inferred from the name graph)
4,236 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Arnis is read(measured from records)
Arnis is one spelling over 3 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.
- Latvian56%
Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
- English16%
Traditional Philippine stickfighting, a martial art.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Arnis in Indonesian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Arnis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #74 | 4,236 | 1 in 444 | 4.2K | Arnis | 78 |
| US United States | — | 129 | 1 in 2.6M | 117 | Arnis | 91 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Arnis | 21 |
| AL Albania | — | 115 | 1 in 27K | 115 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 617K | — | Arnis | 37 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 56 | Arnis | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | 10 | 1 in 35K | 10 | — | — |
4,236 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the ee-stat-nimed register; the lt-vlkk-vardai register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Arnis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, arnis (Philippine stick fighting)
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)
- Arnis Kalniņšb. 1935LVLatvian politician
- Arnis Akmeņlauksb. 1937LVLatvian film director
- Arnis Blumbergsb. 1939(1939) photographer
- Arnis Līcītisb. 1946LVLatvian actor (1946–2022)
- Arnis Mednisb. 1961LVLatvian singer
- Arnis Cimdarsb. 1962LVLatvian politician
- Arnis Veidemanisb. 1972LVLatvian male curler and coach (born 1972)
- Arnis Vecvagarsb. 1974LVLatvian basketball player and coach (born 1974)
- Arnis Balcusb. 1978LVLatvian artist (born 1978)
- Arnis Rumbenieksb. 1988LVLatvian track and field athlete (born 1988)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 4.2K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 4.2K | #123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 117 | #48,840 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 115 | #2,626 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 56 | #902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #48,840 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 5 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Arnis mean?
- In English, Traditional Philippine stickfighting, a martial art.
- Is Arnis a male or female name?
- Arnis 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.
- What are other forms of the name Arnis?
- In the etymology graph, Arnie is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Arnis have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Arnis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arnis.
- Where is Arnis most common?
- Arnis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 444 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Arnis?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 4,236 people named Arnis, about 1 in 444 residents.
- How common is Arnis compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Arnis is the 74th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arnisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Arnis” — the 74th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.