Arcë
surname · Latin script
Arcë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 42nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Spanish azre, from Latin acere (“maple tree”).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 162(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 401
- ARArgentina1 in 669
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- 1 in 162 (inferred from the name graph)
68,029 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arce in AR Argentina, PE Peru, CR Costa Rica and 3 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)
- Old Spanishazre(measured from records)
- Latinacere“maple tree”(measured from records)
Inherited from Old Spanish azre, from Latin acere (“maple tree”).
Sources 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- Wiktionary
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arcë 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #103 | 68,029 | 1 in 669 | 68K | Arce | 112 |
| CR Costa Rica | #42 | 31,455 | 1 in 162 | 31K | Arce | 114 |
| PE Peru | #201 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Arce | 107 |
| US United States | — | 19,464 | 1 in 17K | 19K | Arce | 353 |
| PY Paraguay | #72 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 401 | — | Arce | 59 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 856 | — | Arce | 72 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,782 | 1 in 1.2K | 2.8K | — | 42 |
68,029 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arcë mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Spanish azre, from Latin acere (“maple tree”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Arcë have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Arcë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arce.
- Where is Arcë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arcë is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 162 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arcë?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 68,029 people named Arcë, about 1 in 669 residents.
- How common is Arcë compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Arcë is the 103rd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arc%C3%ABThe 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, “Arcë” — the 103rd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.