Arnen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arnen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9Kas Arends(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 7.5Kas Arends
- USUnited States1 in 109Kas Arens
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Arnen 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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 named Arends, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, as Arends
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arends in US United States, NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa and 3 more and Aren in DK Denmark.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arnen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Arends | 50 |
| NL Netherlands | 5,927as Arends | 1 in 2.9K | 5.9K | Arends | 88 |
| US United States | 3,060as Arens | 1 in 109K | 3.2K | Arends | 292 |
| BE Belgium | 685as Arens | 1 in 17K | 685 | Arends | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 173K | 3 | Arends | 70 |
| SG Singapore | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Arends | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 66as Arens | 1 in 89K | 66 | Aren | 10 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Arnen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, definite singular of arne
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Arnen a male or female name?
- Arnen 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 Arnen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Arends in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Arnen most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Arnen itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Netherlands's: the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 thousand people named Arends.
- How common is the name Arnen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5,927 people named Arends in 2007, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Arnen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arnenThe 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, “Arnen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.