Arista
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: edge (place where two faces of a polyhedron meet)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aɾista/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arista is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 8.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 51K
- USUnited States1 in 253K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
edge (place where two faces of a polyhedron meet)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Arista is read(measured from records)
Arista 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.
- Spanish75%
edge (place where two faces of a polyhedron meet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Arista in Indonesian.
- English7.7%
One of the fibrils found on grains or fishes.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Arista, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arista 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | — | 1 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Arista | 62 |
| US United States | — | 1,315 | 1 in 253K | 1.3K | Arista | 155 |
| AR Argentina | — | 900 | 1 in 51K | 900 | Arista | 42 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Arista | 18 |
| NI Nicaragua | #589 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Arista | 14 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Arista | 14 |
| CR Costa Rica | #643 | 164 | 1 in 31K | 164 | Arista | 7 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Arista is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
a wife of Kasyapa (P); Durga (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
name of many men (P)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Portuguese, arista (one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, elative plural of arka
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)
- Mariano Aristab. 1802MXPresident of Mexico (1851–1853)
- Giovanni Battista Aristab. 1862ITAuxiliary bishop for Diocese of Acireale and Diocese of Nyssa (1862-1920)
- José del Carmen Marín Aristab. 1899PEPeruvian military personnel (1899-1980)
- Humberto Santillán Aristab. 1906PEPeruvian writer (1906-2001)
- Giovanni Battista Aristab. 1913ITconstitutionalist (1913-)
- José Aristab. 1959PEPeruvian economist
- Amanda Dwi Aristab. 1997IDIndonesian singer
- Gladys AristaPEPeruvian model and dancer
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)
Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,239 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,459 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 920 | #25,272 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 900 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 164 | #1,095 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Arista mean, and where does it come from?
- edge (place where two faces of a polyhedron meet) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Arista?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾista/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Arista have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Arista in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Arista?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,315 people named Arista in 2010, about 1 in 253 thousand residents.
- How common is Arista compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Arista is the 589th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Arista?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aristaThe 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, “Arista” — the 589th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.