Ariki
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A person having a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ɐɾiki/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Ariki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
- INIndia1 in 17M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
120 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A person having a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ariki 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.
120 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Ariki is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Polynesian; a chief.
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In Māori, paramount chief of a tribe, the most senior by descent of the rangatira (chiefs) of the tribe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jpx-ryu-pro, to walk
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)- Tomiko Arikib. 1940JPbadminton 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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 270 | #11,440 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 120 | #55,146 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 76 | #34,023 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #143,264 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Ariki mean, and where does it come from?
- A person having a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ariki?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ɐɾiki/; in Swahili /aɾiki/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ariki have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 120 people named Ariki, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ariki most common?
- Ariki is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ariki?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 120 people named Ariki, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arikiThe 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, “Ariki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.