Arnaut
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/aɾnawt/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Arnaut is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 24K(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 31Kfew records
- SISlovenia1 in 32K
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.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Arnaut
- Portuguese:/aɾnawt/(machine-generated) model-generated
- English:/ˈɑɹˌnaʊt/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/aɾnaut/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Arnaut is found
(measured from records)Arnaut 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Arnaut | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 602 | 1 in 352K | 602 | Arnaut | 73 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #801 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Arnaut | 17 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Arnaut | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 216 | 1 in 177K | 120 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Arnaut | 38 |
| HR Croatia | — | 178 | 1 in 24K | 179 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 65 | 1 in 32K | 65 | — | 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Arnaut is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, especially an Albanian serving in the Turkish army.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, a male given name, equivalent to English Arnold
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, Albanian (so called by the Turks)
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)- Robert Arnautb. 1929FRFrench radio producer and journalist (1929-2013)
- Selim Arnautb. 1962BABosnian writer (1962-)
- José Luís Arnautb. 1963PTPortuguese politician
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Arnaut?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /aɾnawt/; in English /ˈɑɹˌnaʊt/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /aɾnaut/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Arnaut?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Arnaut in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arnaut. After it come Brazil, Dominican Republic, Romania and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Arnaut?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 602 people named Arnaut, about 1 in 352 thousand residents.
- How common is Arnaut compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Arnaut is the 801st most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Arnaut?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arnautThe 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, “Arnaut” — the 801st most common surname in the Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.