Aresu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname from Sardinian

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/aresu/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated

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Aresu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.

  • BEBelgium1 in 183K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Belgium (measured from records)

64 people, 2008

Record sources
89 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 183K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

a surname from Sardinian

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Aresu 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.

Where Aresu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium641 in 183K64Aresu5
AR Argentina391 in 1.2M39——
ES Spain241 in 2.1M24—1
CH Switzerland191 in 442K19——
NL Netherlands151 in 1.2M15——

64 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Aresu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aresú

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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)
FormalGentile Aresu,Dear Aresu, (English)
InformalGentile Aresu,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Aresu mean, and where does it come from?
a surname from Sardinian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Aresu?
In Italian /aresu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Aresu have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 64 people named Aresu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aresu.
Where is Aresu most common?
Aresu is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 183 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Aresu?
In Belgium, the national register counted 64 people named Aresu in 2008, about 1 in 183 thousand residents.

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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, “Aresu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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