Araña
surname · Latin script
Meaning: spider
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Araña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 76th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.7K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.9K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arana in PE Peru, US United States, SV El Salvador and 4 more.
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)
spider
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Araña 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #284 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Arana | 94 |
| US United States | — | 10,698 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Arana | 319 |
| EC Ecuador | #341 | 10,027 | 1 in 1.7K | 10K | Arana | 38 |
| GT Guatemala | #76 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Arana | 52 |
| ES Spain | #635 | 7,585 | 1 in 6.6K | 7.6K | Arana | 156 |
| NI Nicaragua | #198 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Arana | 36 |
| SV El Salvador | #279 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Arana | 38 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Araña mean, and where does it come from?
- spider Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Araña have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Araña in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arana.
- How common is the name Araña?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,698 people named Araña in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Araña compared with other names?
- In Peru, Araña is the 284th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Araña?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ara%C3%B1aThe 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, “Araña” — the 284th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.