Arellano
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Arellano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as province of Navarre, so called from LL Aurelianus (fun¬ dus) ‘(farm, estate) of Aurelius’, a personal name possibly derived from L aurum gold.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.7K
- VEVenezuela≈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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
province of Navarre, so called from LL Aurelianus (fun¬ dus) ‘(farm, estate) of Aurelius’, a personal name possibly derived from L aurum gold.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
How Arellano is read(measured from records)
Arellano is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish73%
province of Navarre, so called from LL Aurelianus (fun¬ dus) ‘(farm, estate) of Aurelius’, a personal name possibly derived from L aurum gold.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Arellano (a town in Navarre, Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English21%
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arellano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #171 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Arellano | 103 |
| US United States | — | 50,104 | 1 in 6.6K | 50K | Arellano | 383 |
| VE Venezuela | #295 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Arellano | 68 |
| EC Ecuador | #232 | 13,828 | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | Arellano | 60 |
| PE Peru | #407 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Arellano | 90 |
| CL Chile | #265 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Arellano | 119 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,451 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.5K | — | 30 |
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; INEC — civil registry names; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Arellano 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 Basque, Arellano (a village in Navarre, Spain)
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)
- Tristán de Luna y Arellanob. 1510ESSpanish conquistador
- David Arellanob. 1901CLChilean footballer (1901-1927)
- Oswaldo López Arellanob. 1921HNPresident of Honduras
- Mil Máscarasb. 1942MXnot in their usual nameMexican professional wrestler
- Dos Carasb. 1951MXnot in their usual nameMexican professional wrestler
- Daniela Castrob. 1969MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Jesús Arellanob. 1973MXMexican footballer
- Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellanob. 1973MXMexican drug trafficker
- Édgar Ramírezb. 1977VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan actor
- Drew Arellanob. 1980USFilipino actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Arellano mean, and where does it come from?
- province of Navarre, so called from LL Aurelianus (fun¬ dus) ‘(farm, estate) of Aurelius’, a personal name possibly derived from L aurum gold. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- In which country does Arellano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Arellano in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arellano.
- Where is Arellano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arellano is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arellano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 50,104 people named Arellano in 2010, about 1 in 6.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Arellano compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Arellano is the 171st most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Arellano” — the 171st most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.