Arist
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A rising, as from a seat, a bed, or the ground, or from below the horizon
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arist is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 4.8Mas Αριστ(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Arist 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈2 named Αριστ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est., as Αριστ
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Αριστ in GR Greece.
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)
A rising, as from a seat, a bed, or the ground, or from below the horizon.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arist 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.
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen 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)
Arist is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Arist Onan'in, scribe. First Quarter of 15th Century.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In ofs, alternative form of ērest
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)
- Aristos of Ascalonb. 50ILnot in their usual nameancient Greek philosopher
- Arist von Wolffb. 1858diplomat (1858-1924)
- Arist Panderb. 1890LVBaltic German and Danish art historian and librarian (1890-1941)
- Arist Rollierb. 1919CHSwiss politician (1919-1997)
- Arist von Schlippeb. 1951DEGerman psychotherapist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #39,067 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #38,470 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2016 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2011 | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Arist mean, and where does it come from?
- A rising, as from a seat, a bed, or the ground, or from below the horizon. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Arist a male or female name?
- Arist is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Arist have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2 people named Αριστ in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Arist?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2 people in Greece have Αριστ as their first given name, about 1 in 4.8 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Arist?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aristThe 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, “Arist”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.