Arques

loc · Latin script

Meaning, in French: second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of arquer

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Arques is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
98 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of arquer

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Arques is read(measured from records)

Arques is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • French42%

    second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of arquer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Catalan14%

    plural of arca

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese5.7%

    second-person singular present subjunctive of arcar

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arques counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Arques is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—2.3KArques98
BR Brazil—289—27
AR Argentina—70—29
FR France—27—1
EC Ecuador—1—1

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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Arques is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Arqués, Arquès

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Arqués, Arquès

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Arqués

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Arqués

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Arqués

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Arques
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.3K#2,172
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.3K#2,170
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—289#27,260
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—70—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19219—

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 Arques mean, and where does it come from?
second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of arquer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Arques have the most bearers?
Arques is most frequently recorded in Spain, where it is most often spelled arques.

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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, “Arques”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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