Arrieta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/arjet̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arrieta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 86th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Arrieta, from Basque Arrieta (literally “rocky place”).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 334(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 951
- ARArgentina1 in 2.2K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- 1 in 334 (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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(measured from records)
- SpanishArrieta(measured from records)
- BasqueArrieta“rocky place”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Arrieta, from Basque Arrieta (literally “rocky place”).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arrieta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #143 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 951 | 26 | Arrieta | 125 |
| AR Argentina | #300 | 21,047 | 1 in 2.2K | 21K | Arrieta | 96 |
| CR Costa Rica | #86 | 15,249 | 1 in 334 | 15K | Arrieta | 81 |
| VE Venezuela | #375 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Arrieta | 59 |
| PE Peru | #658 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Arrieta | 77 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,371 | 1 in 2.5K | 1.4K | — | 32 |
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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Arrieta 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 Basque, Arrieta Interpretation Arrieta means stony place.
as a wordBuber's Basque Page — Surname research (Ormaetxea & Ybarra ~2003)
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)
- Agustín Arrietab. 1802MXMexican painter (1803-1874)
- Luis Arrietab. 1914ARArgentinian association football player (1914-1972)
- José Araquistáinb. 1937ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer (1937–2025)
- Roberto D'Aubuissonb. 1944SVnot in their usual nameextreme-right Salvadoran soldier, politician and death-squad leader (1944-1992)
- José Luis Arrietab. 1971ESSpanish sporting director and road bicycle racer
- Luis Arrietab. 1982MXMexican actor, television actor and stage actor
- Jake Arrietab. 1986USAmerican baseball player
- Danilo Arrietab. 1987CLChilean footballer
- Adolis Garcíab. 1993CUnot in their usual nameCuban professional baseball outfielder
- Darío Brizuelab. 1994ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1994)
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 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 21K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 15K | #129 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.4K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 26 | #90 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Arrieta mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Arrieta, from Basque Arrieta (literally “rocky place”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Arrieta?
- A machine transcription gives /arjet̪a/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Arrieta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Arrieta in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arrieta.
- Where is Arrieta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arrieta is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 334 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arrieta?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 21,047 people named Arrieta, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Arrieta compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Arrieta is the 143rd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arrietaThe 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, “Arrieta” — the 143rd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.