Arendt
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from a different form of the German male personal name Arndt, perhaps adopted as a Jewish surname because of resemblance to Aaron
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɛɹɪnt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arendt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 816Kas Арендт(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 24K
- DKDenmark1 in 36K
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 Arendt 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
2,646 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Арендт in RU Russia.
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)
from a different form of the German male personal name Arndt, perhaps adopted as a Jewish surname because of resemblance to Aaron.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Arendt is read(measured from records)
Arendt 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.
- English60%
from a different form of the German male personal name Arndt, perhaps adopted as a Jewish surname because of resemblance to Aaron.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German23%
Kurzform aus Arnold; die Karte zeigt das Auftreten/Fehlen des Sprossvokals e im Nebenton (v. a. Arndt/Arendt und Genitiv- bzw. Ableitungsformen).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Belegt als Typ mit 17.873 Trägern; Karte zeigt Vokalvariation Arndt/Arendt (Nebentonvokalismus, Synkope, Sprossvokale).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Aus Arnold; mit Sprossvokal e. 3.857 Belege. Karte zeigt A-/Ah- und die Varianten mit dt, d, t, th.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
zu ahd./altsächs. arn ‚Adler‘; patronymischer Familienname zum Rufnamen Arn.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Deutscher Familienname; zeigt d/t-Variation im Auslaut nach n. 3049 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
Arendt 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.
2,646 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rudolf Arendtb. 1828DEGerman chemist (1828–1902)
- Erich Arendtb. 1903DEGerman translator (1903–1984)
- Hannah Arendtb. 1906USGerman-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
- Gisela Arendtb. 1918DEswimmer (1918–1969)
- Rudolf Arendtb. 1923DEGerman soldier (1923–2021)
- Eddi Arentb. 1925DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor and comedian (1925–2013)
- Walter Arendtb. 1925DEGerman politician:Social Democratic Party (SPD)/Federal Minister of Labour/Social Affairs/Germany(1969-1976)
- Guy Arendtb. 1954LULuxembourgish politician
- Helga Arendtb. 1964DEGerman sprinter (1964–2013)
- Nicole Arendtb. 1969USAmerican tennis player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #11,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,075 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #11,984 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 834 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 834 | #3,813 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 793 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 793 | #3,916 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 695 | #12,693 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 162 | #3,242 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 134 | #12,115 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 50 | #26,428 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Arendt mean, and where does it come from?
- from a different form of the German male personal name Arndt, perhaps adopted as a Jewish surname because of resemblance to Aaron. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Arendt?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛɹɪnt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Arendt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Arendt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arendt.
- Where is Arendt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arendt is densest in Poland — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arendt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,646 people named Arendt in 2010, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arendtThe 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, “Arendt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.