Arcana
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arcana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 7.3M
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 15M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Arcana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arcana 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Arcana | 43 |
| BR Brazil | 23as Akana | 1 in 9.2M | 23 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 39M | 1.1K | Arcana | 72 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Arcana | 4 |
| AR Argentina | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 29M | 55 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 15M | listed | — | 1 |
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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Arcana is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Specialized knowledge that is mysterious to the uninitiated.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine singular of arcano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, feminine singular of arcà
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of arcānus:
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 55 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Arcana a male or female name?
- Arcana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Arcana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 127 people named Arcana in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arcana.
- How common is the name Arcana?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 23 people named Akana in 2022, about 1 in 9.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Arcana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arcanaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Arcana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.