Araki
surname · Latin script
Meaning: An Oceanic language of Vanuatu
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɑˈɹɑki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Araki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 226K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 177K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 177K (inferred from the name graph)
1,469 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An Oceanic language of Vanuatu.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Araki 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,469 | 1 in 226K | 1.5K | Araki | 168 |
| BR Brazil | 1,195 | 1 in 177K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 40 | 1 in 1.1M | 40 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 20 | 1 in 1.9M | 12 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | 3 |
1,469 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Araki 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 Albanian, withy, willow for basketmaking
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)
- Sadao Arakib. 1877JPJapanese officer and general (1877–1966)
- Yuriko Miyamotob. 1899JPnot in their usual nameJapanese novelist, critic, member of the Japanese Communist Party
- Nobuyoshi Arakib. 1940JPJapanese photographer (born 1940)
- Gregg Arakib. 1959USAmerican film director
- Hirohiko Arakib. 1960JPJapanese manga artist
- Tarō Arakib. 1961JPJapanese actor and director
- Tetsurō Arakib. 1976JPJapanese anime director
- Sayaka Arakib. 1984JPJapanese fashion model, DJ, businesswoman, and hostess
- Yuko Arakib. 1993JPJapanese actress and model
- Ryotaro Arakib. 2002JPJapanese association football player
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,703 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,852 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 940 | #27,194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 927 | #25,098 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 40 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #34,587 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #32,652 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #119,282 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #148,667 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Araki mean, and where does it come from?
- An Oceanic language of Vanuatu. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Araki?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑˈɹɑki/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Araki have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Araki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled araki.
- Where is Araki most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Araki is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 177 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Araki?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,469 people named Araki in 2010, about 1 in 226 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arakiThe 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, “Araki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.