Arrua
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/arwa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arrua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 751(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 1.5K
- ARArgentina1 in 4.4K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 751 (inferred from the name graph)
10,400 people
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arrua 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.
10,400 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Saturnino Arrúab. 1949PYParaguayan football player/coach
- Matías Arrúab. 1985ARArgentine Footballer
- Luis Arrúab. 1988UYmusician from Uruguay
- Carlos Arruab. 1997PYParaguayan footballer
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 426 | #19,641 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 383 | #9,908 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 383 | #9,885 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Arrua?
- A machine transcription gives /arwa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Arrua have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Arrua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arrua.
- How common is the name Arrua?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 10,400 people named Arrua, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Arrua compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Arrua is the 533rd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arruaThe 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, “Arrua” — the 533rd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.