Arrigo

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Arrigo 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.

• English59%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Arrigo in English.

• Spanish21%

  Variante italiana de Enrique.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Italian5.7%

  do nome germ. Haimirik; sobrenome patronímico

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  Variante di Arrighi

  as a name·Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Arrigo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Italian surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

  Also written Arrigò, ́arrigo

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written ArriGó

42 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.

Arrigo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Ricco e potente in patria

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• Italian: vernacular form of the more learned ENRICO , a cognate of English HENRY , German Heinrich . Arrigo is the older form of the name, and was used throughout the Middle Ages.

  as a word

• In Galician, first-person singular present indicative of arrigar

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Giuseppe Arrigob. 18389 September 1838 — 30 September 1913
• Frank Arrigob. 1917USAmerican director
• Charles Arrigob. 1929MTMaltese actor and broadcaster (1929-2006)
• Gerry Arrigob. 1941USAmerican baseball player
• Jean Maria Arrigob. 1944USAmerican social psychologist
• Linda Arrigob. 1949USAmerican political activist, human rights activist, and academic researcher in Taiwan
• Michelangelo Arrigob. 1949ITItalian mathematician (1949-1987)
• Robert Arrigob. 1954MTMaltese politician (1954–2022)
• Bruce Arrigob. 1960USAmerican academic, researcher, professor of criminal justice and criminology
• Kevin ArrigoUSresearcher

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What are other forms of the name Arrigo?

In the etymology graph, Henning, Hein and Hendrick are forms of the same name in other languages; Rico is a recorded short or pet form.

How do you pronounce Arrigo?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /aɾiɡo/; in Italian /arˈri.ɡo/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Arrigo mean?

Recorded meaning: do nome germ. Haimirik; sobrenome patronímico

In which country does Arrigo have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Arrigo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arrigo.

Where is Arrigo most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arrigo is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 49 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Arrigo?

In the United States, the national register counted 1,576 people named Arrigo in 2010, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.