Arsenio
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: first-person singular present indicative of arseniar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/arsɛnio/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arsenio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 80th most common given name.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.6K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 5.7K
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
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first-person singular present indicative of arseniar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Arsenio is read(measured from records)
Arsenio 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%
Griego; ‘viril, varonil, fuerte, vigoroso, valiente’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Arsenio in English.
- Portuguese5.2%
first-person singular present indicative of arseniar
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Arsenio 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 | #829 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 23K | Arsenio | 67 |
| MZ Mozambique | #80 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 1 | Arsenio | 24 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Arsenio | 40 |
| PY Paraguay | #202 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Arsenio | 28 |
| US United States | — | 3,281 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Arsenio | 223 |
| AR Argentina | #854 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 13 | Arsenio | 41 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #256 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Arsenio | 26 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Arsenio 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.
In Italian, Dal greco, 'maschio, virile'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
From Greek Arsenios ‘virile’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Virile
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Arsen Iqaltoelib. 1050GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian saint
- Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antónb. 1831ESSpanish general and politician (1831-1900)
- Arsenio Linares y Pombob. 1848ESSpanish general (1848-1914)
- Arsenio Rodríguezb. 1911CUCuban musician (1911–1970)
- Arsenio Lacsonb. 1911PHFilipino politician (1911-1962)
- Elder Paisios of Mount Athosb. 1924GRnot in their usual nameGreek Eastern Orthodox monk and Saint (1924-1994)
- Arsenio Iglesiasb. 1930ESSpanish football player and manager (1930–2023)
- Arsenio Hallb. 1956USAmerican comedian, actor and television host
- Arsenio Valpoortb. 1992NLDutch association footballer
- Arseni Khachaturanb. 1993BYnot in their usual nameUS-based Belarusian cinematographer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #5,288 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 16 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #5,288 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2022 | 4 | #3,271 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2013 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2013 | 3 | — |
| MZ Mozambique | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #139 |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Arsenio mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of arseniar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Arsenio a male or female name?
- Arsenio is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Arsenio?
- A machine transcription gives /arsɛnio/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Arsenio?
- In the etymology graph, Arsen, Arseniy and Arsène are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Arsenio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Arsenio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arsenio.
- How common is the name Arsenio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,281 people named Arsenio in 2020, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Arsenio compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Arsenio is the 829th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arsenioThe 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, “Arsenio” — the 829th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.