Arenas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Arenas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Armour Ares.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 1.6K
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.2K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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)
Armour Ares
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arenas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #177 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 27 | Arenas | 150 |
| ES Spain | #219 | 22,411 | 1 in 2.2K | 22K | Arenas | 169 |
| PH Philippines | #664 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Arenas | 73 |
| PE Peru | #360 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Arenas | 91 |
| VE Venezuela | #368 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Arenas | 65 |
| CL Chile | #299 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Arenas | 122 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Arenas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of arena
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, accusative plural of arēna
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)
- Antonio Arenasb. 1808PEPresident of Peru (1808-1891)
- Reinaldo Arenasb. 1943CUCuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)
- Javier Arenas Bocanegrab. 1957ESSpanish politician
- Eloy Azorínb. 1977ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Daniel Arenasb. 1979COColombian actor
- Gilbert Arenasb. 1982USAmerican basketball player
- Paula Arenasb. 1988COColombian pop singer-songwriter
- Antonio Raillob. 1991ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Sandra Arenasb. 1993COAthletics (sport) competitor
- Albert Arenasb. 1996ESSpanish motorcycle racer
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 33 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22K | #230 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22K | #230 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 27 | #89 |
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 Arenas mean, and where does it come from?
- Armour Ares Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- In which country does Arenas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Arenas in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arenas.
- How common is the name Arenas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 22,411 people named Arenas, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Arenas compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Arenas is the 177th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arenasThe 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, “Arenas” — the 177th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.