Arabian

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Related to Arabia

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Arabian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 699K(measured from records)
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 203K
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 211K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Arabian itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
159 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 203K (inferred from the name graph)

Lebanon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ArabianLatin(measured from records)
არაბიანGeorgian(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(measured from records)

Related to Arabia.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arabian 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.

Where Arabian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈1,100 est.≈1 in 221K—Arabian5
US United States4761 in 699K476Arabian159
KE Kenya≈180 est.≈1 in 292K—Arabian1
GE Georgia136as არაბიან1 in 29K136Arabian4
SA Saudi Arabia≈140 est.≈1 in 254K—Arabian6
LB Lebanon≈27 est.≈1 in 203K—Arabian2
KW Kuwait≈14 est.≈1 in 211K—Arabian11

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; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)

Arabian is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Àřabîañ, Ãråbïâñ, Äråbíäñ

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Arabi︠a︡n

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Арабиан, Arabi︠a︡n, Арабйан

32 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)

Arabian 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 Finnish, genitive singular of Arabia

    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)

1920194019601980Armand Arabian, b. 1934Monique Arabian, b. 1943Ghislaine Arabian, b. 1948Karine Arabian, b. 1967

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 15 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Arabian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010476#45,026
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020467#48,797
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000446#45,227
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Arabian mean, and where does it come from?
Related to Arabia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Arabian?
A machine transcription gives /əɹeɪbiən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Arabian have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Arabian in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arabian.
How common is the name Arabian?
In the United States, the national register counted 476 people named Arabian in 2010, about 1 in 699 thousand residents.

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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, “Arabian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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