Arneson
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɑɹnɪsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arneson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 51K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 71K
- SESweden1 in 109K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
4,665 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arneson 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,665 | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Arneson | 10 |
| NO Norway | 108 | 1 in 51K | 108 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 94 | 1 in 109K | 94 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 14 | 1 in 3.2M | 14 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | Arneson | 3 |
4,665 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Torberg Arnessonb. 982NOnot in their usual namePeerage person ID=112978
- Johannes Arnesonb. 1865NONorwegian writer
- Erni Arnesonb. 1917DKDanish actress (1917-2006)
- Robert Carston Arnesonb. 1930USAmerican artist (1930-1992)
- Dave Arnesonb. 1947USAmerican game designer (1947-2009)
- Mark Arnesonb. 1949USAmerican football player
- Jim Arnesonb. 1951USAmerican football player (born 1951)
- Bjarte Arnesonb. 1978NONorwegian writer
- Richard Arnesonb. 2000USAmerican philosopher specializing in political philosophy
- Ronald D. Arnesonphycologist
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.7K | #7,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.6K | #6,748 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.2K | #7,585 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 108 | #14,368 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 94 | #7,595 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 14 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Arneson?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑɹnɪsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Arneson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Arneson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arneson.
- Where is Arneson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arneson is densest in Norway — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arneson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,665 people named Arneson in 2010, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Arneson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arnesonThe 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, “Arneson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.