Arroyave

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/aroʝabe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Arroyave is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Arroyave, from Basque Arroiave.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 53K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 74K

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)

≈17,000 people, est.

Sources
165 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Arroyave: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Arroyave
  1. SpanishArroyave(measured from records)
  2. BasqueArroiave(measured from records)

Borrowed from Spanish Arroyave, from Basque Arroiave.

Sources 1

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arroyave 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.

Where Arroyave is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#305≈17,000 est.≈1 in 2.9K15Arroyave138
ES Spain—9391 in 53K939Arroyave64
US United States—8521 in 390K958Arroyave165
GT Guatemala#954≈820 est.≈1 in 21K—Arroyave25
VE Venezuela—≈390 est.≈1 in 74K—Arroyave18
IS Iceland—≈3 est.≈1 in 111Klisted——

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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

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

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Arróyave, Arroyavé

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Arròyave, Arróyave

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Jaime Arroyave, b. 1928Miguel Arroyave, b. 1954Stella Arroyave, b. 1956Fabio Arroyave, b. 1960Karina Arroyave, b. 1969Paula Andrea Betancur, b. 1972Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave, b. 1981Fabio Fernando Arroyave Rivas, b. 1989Andrés Arroyave, b. 1990Andrea Aguilera, b. 1993

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)

FormalEstimado/a Arroyave,Dear Arroyave, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Arroyave,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Arroyave
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020958#26,789
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—939#4,668
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—939#4,667
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010852#28,100
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000621#34,503
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—15#101
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Arroyave mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Arroyave, from Basque Arroiave. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Arroyave?
A machine transcription gives /aroʝabe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Arroyave have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Arroyave in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arroyave.
How common is the name Arroyave?
In Spain, the national register counted 939 people named Arroyave, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
How common is Arroyave compared with other names?
In Colombia, Arroyave is the 305th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Arroyave” — the 305th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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