Arumugam
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛɹəmʊɡəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arumugam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Tamil ஆறுமுகம் (āṟumukam).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 8K
- USUnited States1 in 611K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Tamil ஆறுமுகம் (āṟumukam).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arumugam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #273 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 278 | Arumugam | 74 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #736 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Arumugam | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Arumugam | 27 |
| SG Singapore | #514 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Arumugam | 51 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #896 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Arumugam | 40 |
| US United States | — | 544 | 1 in 611K | 1K | Arumugam | 190 |
| BH Bahrain | #975 | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Arumugam | 7 |
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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- David Arumugamb. 1950MYMalaysian musician
- R. Arumugamb. 1953MYMalaysian footballer (1953-1988)
- Prakash ArumugamINresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-6217-8128)
- Senthil ArumugamDEresearcher
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,766 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 544 | #40,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 183 | #93,006 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Arumugam mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Tamil ஆறுமுகம் (āṟumukam). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Arumugam?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɹəmʊɡəm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Arumugam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Arumugam in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arumugam.
- How common is the name Arumugam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 544 people named Arumugam in 2010, about 1 in 611 thousand residents.
- How common is Arumugam compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Arumugam is the 273rd most common surname of 291,743 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/arumugamThe 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, “Arumugam” — the 273rd most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.