Arrojo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Arrojo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as fearlessness; daring.
- ESSpain1 in 54K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 60K
- ARArgentina1 in 143K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is 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)
hurl (instance of hurling, throwing violently)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Arrojo is read(measured from records)
Arrojo 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.
- Spanish60%
fearlessness; daring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Arrojo in English.
- Portuguese7.7%
hurl (instance of hurling, throwing violently)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Arrojo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Arrojo | 28 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 283K | — | Arrojo | 3 |
| ES Spain | 933 | 1 in 54K | 933 | Arrojo | 88 |
| BR Brazil | 562 | 1 in 377K | 562 | Arrojo | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 317 | 1 in 143K | 317 | Arrojo | 37 |
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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Arrojo 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, ( Lar ), arroju ( Lar ). "Arrojo, es Bascuence, oldarria, arrojua, atrebindea " Lar . "Arrojamiento [...] lat. audacia" Ib. . Cf. Ib. s.v. arrojar: "Viene de arrojo , y esta voz es puramente Bascongada, arro y jo ".
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- José Fandiño Arrojob. 1871ESSpanish politician
- Carlos Arrojo Paredesb. 1941ESSpanish race driver (1941-2000)
- Rosemary Arrojob. 1950BRBrazilian specialist in literature and university teacher
- Pedro Arrojo-Agudob. 1951ESSpanish physicist
- Rolando Arrojob. 1968CUbaseball player
- Belén Arrojob. 1995ESSpanish basketball player (born 1995)
- Lucio López ArrojoESSpanish author
- Frank Arrojoresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7493-6480
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 933 | #4,705 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 933 | #4,703 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 562 | #15,323 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 317 | — |
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
- Where does the name Arrojo come from?
- hurl (instance of hurling, throwing violently) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Arrojo mean?
- In Spanish, fearlessness; daring
- In which country does Arrojo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Arrojo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arrojo.
- Where is Arrojo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arrojo is densest in Spain — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arrojo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 933 people named Arrojo, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
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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, “Arrojo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.