Arauz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/araus/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arauz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Arauz, from Basque Araotz.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 278(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 996
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.2K
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.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 278 (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
- SpanishArauz(measured from records)
- BasqueAraotz(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Arauz, from Basque Araotz.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arauz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #30 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 278 | — | Arauz | 48 |
| BO Bolivia | #114 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Arauz | 49 |
| EC Ecuador | #799 | 4,932 | 1 in 3.4K | 4.9K | Arauz | 45 |
| CR Costa Rica | #179 | 4,413 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.4K | Arauz | 56 |
| PA Panama | #11 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 996 | 91 | Arauz | 75 |
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: Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
- Eugenio Arauz Pallardób. 1894ESSpanish politician
- Andrea Arauzb. 1901HNHonduran filmmaker
- Irma Aráuz Merizaldeb. 1948ECEcuadorian singer
- Celestino Araúzb. 1950PAPanamanian historian (1950-)
- Andrés Arauzb. 1985ECEcuadorian politician and economist (born 1985)
- Vanessa Arauz Leónb. 1989ECEcuadorian association football manager
- Leonel Justinianob. 1992BOnot in their usual nameBolivian professional footballer
- Marlon Ramírezb. 1994HNnot in their usual nameHonduran association football player
- Omar Valenciab. 2004PAnot in their usual namePanamanian footballer (born 2004)
- Randall ArauzCRenvironmentalist
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Arauz mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Arauz, from Basque Araotz. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Arauz?
- A machine transcription gives /araus/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Arauz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Arauz in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arauz.
- How common is the name Arauz?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,932 people named Arauz in 2024, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Arauz compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Arauz is the 30th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arauzThe 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, “Arauz” — the 30th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.