Ariosto
given name · Latin script
Meaning: hab. de Riosto; forma surgida de d’Ariosto
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/ariosto/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Ariosto is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 270K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1M
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
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
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
783 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)hab. de Riosto; forma surgida de d’Ariosto
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ariosto 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 783 | 1 in 270K | 1K | Ariosto | 60 |
| CO Colombia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 156K | 2 | Ariosto | 32 |
| PH Philippines | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 657K | — | Ariosto | 10 |
| US United States | 138 | 1 in 2.4M | 138 | Ariosto | 81 |
| PE Peru | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 337K | — | Ariosto | 22 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Ariosto | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | 29 | 1 in 117K | 29 | Ariosto | 10 |
783 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Ariosto 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, Ludovico, Italian poet
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Croatian, pisac prvih talijanskih dramskih komedija i viteškog epa Bijesni Orlando
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
In Latvian, Itāļu dzejnieks ("Ariosto Ludoviko", 1474.-1533. g), ievērojamākais darbs - poēma "Saniknotais Orlando"
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Ariosto A. Wileyb. 1848USAmerican politician (1848–1908)
- Henry A. Wileyb. 1867USnot in their usual nameAmerican Navy admiral
- Ariosto McCrimmonb. 1885USWest Point graduate, class of 1877
- Ariosto Herrerab. 1892CLChilean politician and military (1892–1952)
- Ariosto D. Gonzálezb. 1901UYUruguayan writer
- Ariosto Nerib. 1906ITItalian aviator (1906-1932)
- Ariosto Jaegerb. 1922BRBrazilian politician
- Ariosto Holandab. 1938BRBrazilian politician
- Ariosto Teixeirab. 1953BRBrazilian journalist
- Ariosto Temporinb. 1955ITItalian rower
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1K | #3,669 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1K | #9,074 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 783 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 781 | #9,830 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 742 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 645 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 492 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 248 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 244 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 153 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 149 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 138 | #47,349 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ariosto?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ariosto/; in Portuguese /ɐɾjuʃtu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Ariosto a male or female name?
- Ariosto is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Ariosto mean?
- Recorded meaning: hab. de Riosto; forma surgida de d’Ariosto
- In which country does Ariosto have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 783 people named Ariosto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ariosto.
- Where is Ariosto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ariosto is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ariosto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 783 people named Ariosto in 2022, about 1 in 270 thousand 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/ariostoThe 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, “Ariosto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.