Arturo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Arthur
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɾtuɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arturo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Mexico it is the 37th most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 872(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 1.1K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.3K
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)
- #532 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 472 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 872 (inferred from the name graph)
≈87,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Arthur
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arturo 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 | #305 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Arturo | 95 |
| US United States | #693 | 84,408 | 1 in 3.9K | 84K | Arturo | 472 |
| PE Peru | #87 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 872 | — | Arturo | 136 |
| ES Spain | #183 | 28,874 | 1 in 1.7K | 29K | Arturo | 218 |
| CO Colombia | #145 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 14 | Arturo | 176 |
| CL Chile | #124 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 127 | Arturo | 147 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,720 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Arturo | 95 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 884 | — | Arturo | 55 |
| MX Mexico | #37 | — | — | 3.1K | Arturo | 280 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry 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)
Arturo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Celtarrromano; nombre del rey Arturo, héroe de los romances medievales.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Italian, Variante di Adolfo; dal germanico Adalwolf, ‘nobile lupo’
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do nome Arturo; sobrenome patronímico
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Celtic. See }Arthur in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Guardiano del Nord
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)
- Arturo Toscaninib. 1867ITItalian conductor (1867–1957)
- Arturo Alessandrib. 1868CLChilean politician and President (1868–1950)
- Arturo Umberto Illiab. 1900ARPresident of Argentina (1900-1983)
- Arturo Frondizib. 1908ARPresident of Argentina (1908–1995)
- Arturo de Córdovab. 1908MXMexican actor (1907–1973)
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangelib. 1920ITItalian pianist
- Arturo Sandovalb. 1949CUCuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer
- Arturo Pérez-Reverteb. 1951ESSpanish writer and journalist
- Carlos Baccab. 1986COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
- Arturo Vidalb. 1987CLChilean association football player
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 87 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 84K | #626 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29K | #110 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29K | #262 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 12K | #173 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 3.1K | #17 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 446 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 155 | #626 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 127 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 64 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 14 | #107 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 6 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 5 | #9,040 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Arturo mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Arthur Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Arturo?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾtuɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Arturo a male or female name?
- Arturo 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.
- What are other forms of the name Arturo?
- In the etymology graph, Arthur, Artur and Artie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Arturo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 87 thousand people named Arturo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arturo.
- How common is the name Arturo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 84,408 people named Arturo in 2020, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Arturo compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Arturo is the 305th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Arturo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arturoThe 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, “Arturo” — the 305th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.