Aracena
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aɾaθena/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aracena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Aracena. This surname is predominantly found in Chile.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 4.8K
- ARArgentina1 in 26K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Aracena. This surname is predominantly found in Chile.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aracena 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #146 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Aracena | 49 |
| CL Chile | #379 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Aracena | 84 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,777 | 1 in 26K | 1.8K | Aracena | 45 |
| US United States | — | 1,049 | 1 in 317K | 1.4K | Aracena | 161 |
| BO Bolivia | #799 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Aracena | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 60 | 1 in 56K | 60 | Aracena | 12 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Eulogio Altamirano Aracenab. 1835CLChilean politician (1835-1903)
- Diego Aracenab. 1891CLChilean military personnel (1891-1972)
- Alexis Figueroa Aracenab. 1956CLChilean writer; winner of the Casa de las Américas Award
- Miguel Jiménezb. 1980CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Cristian Aracenab. 1987ARArgentinian association football player
- Sebastián Díaz Aracenab. 1996CLChilean association football player
- Soraya AracenaDODominican anthropologist
- Ignacio AracenaUSparticle physics
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,031 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 641 | #33,563 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 60 | — |
| US United States | wru 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 Aracena mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Aracena. This surname is predominantly found in Chile. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Aracena?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾaθena/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Aracena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Aracena in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aracena.
- How common is the name Aracena?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,777 people named Aracena, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Aracena compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Aracena is the 146th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aracenaThe 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, “Aracena” — the 146th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.