Arsenio
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: first-person singular present indicative of arseniar (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Spain (INE): listed as male
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as female
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/arsɛnio/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Arsenio is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, 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 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.3K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 5.2K
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)
- Record sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Arsenio
- Spanish:/arsɛnio/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ɐɾsɛnju/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)first-person singular present indicative of arseniar
Cited for this meaning 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 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 23K | Arsenio | 67 |
| MZ Mozambique | #80 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 1 | Arsenio | 24 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 40 | Arsenio | 89 |
| PY Paraguay | #202 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Arsenio | 28 |
| AO Angola | #613 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 1 | Arsenio | 13 |
| US United States | — | 3,281 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Arsenio | 223 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #256 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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)- Arsenio Rodríguezb. 1911CUCuban musician (1911–1970)
- Arsenio Iglesiasb. 1930ESSpanish football player and manager (1930–2023)
- Arsenio Hallb. 1956USAmerican comedian, actor and television host
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)59 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Arsenio a male or female name?
- Arsenio is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Spain (INE): listed as male; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- 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).
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Arsenio?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /arsɛnio/; in Portuguese /ɐɾsɛnju/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Arsenio?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Arsenio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arsenio. After it come Mozambique, Mexico, Paraguay and Angola; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Arsenio?
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Query this name via API
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” — ranked 326th in the Philippines (Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.