Argentine
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Old French Argentin, a diminutive of argent ‘silver’ used as a personal name; first attested Argentina 1196 FFO (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/aɾ.xẽn̪ˈt̪i.ne/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Argentine is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
- GTGuatemala
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
How to pronounce Argentine
- Spanish:/aɾ.xẽn̪ˈt̪i.ne/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Old French Argentin, a diminutive of argent ‘silver’ used as a personal name; first attested Argentina 1196 FFO
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Argentine is read
(measured from records)Argentine is one spelling over 3 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.
- English83%
from Old French Argentin, a diminutive of argent ‘silver’ used as a personal name; first attested Argentina 1196 FFO
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
(i) Argentina 1196 FFO, 1258 Acc; Argenten Roost, Argintyne Twiggs 1642 PrD. OFr Argentin (f), a dirainutive of OFr argent ‘silver’ used as a personal name. (ii) Reginald de Argentein 1274 PN Ess 392; William Argenten 1439–40 Paston. From Argenton (Indre).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Containing or resembling silver.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
lake, Argentina; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
alternate name for Argentina
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French5.3%
feminine singular of argentin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Argentine in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Richard Argentineb. 1510GBEnglish physician/divine
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Argentine mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old French Argentin, a diminutive of argent ‘silver’ used as a personal name; first attested Argentina 1196 FFO Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Argentine?
- In the etymology graph, Argent and Argentin are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Argentine?
- In Spanish /aɾ.xẽn̪ˈt̪i.ne/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Argentine have the most bearers?
- Argentine is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Argentine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.