Arsenic

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Arsenic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country. In English, recorded as A toxic grey brittle nonmetallic chemical element (symbol As) with an atomic number of 33.

rarermore common
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 27K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 28K

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)

≈270 people, est.

Sources
15 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Arsenić in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Arsenic is read(measured from records)

Arsenic is one spelling over 4 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.

  • English45%

    A toxic grey brittle nonmetallic chemical element (symbol As) with an atomic number of 33.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German17%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Arsenic in German.

  • Serbian12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Arsenic in Serbian.

  • French5.7%

    arsenic (chemical element)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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

Arsenic 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 Arsenic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈270 est.≈1 in 14K—Arsenić4
RS Serbia≈250 est.≈1 in 28K—Arsenić11
HR Croatia1571 in 27K157Arsenić15
SI Slovenia711 in 30K71—3
US United States≈33 est.≈1 in 10MlistedArsenic6
CH Switzerland171 in 494K17—3

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)

Arsenic is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, Serbia

    Also written Arsenić

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Serbia, Argentina

    Also written Arsenić, Arsënic

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Arsenić

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Arsenič, Arsenić

37 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Arsenic 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 Romanian, ARSÉNIC s. n. Pulbere fină, albă, cu miros de usturoi, foarte toxică pentru om; arsen (2). ◊ (Adjectival) Acid arsenic = acid rezultat din combinarea arsenului (1) cu acid azotic.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Arsenic
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202417#41,155
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

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

What does the name Arsenic mean?
In English, A toxic grey brittle nonmetallic chemical element (symbol As) with an atomic number of 33.
In which country does Arsenic have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 267 people named Arsenic in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arsenić.
How common is the name Arsenic?
In Croatia, the national register counted 157 people named Arsenic in 2021, about 1 in 27 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, “Arsenic”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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