Arundel
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Arundel, Sussex, or from a medieval nickname meaning ‘swallow’ (Old French arondel)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arundel is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Arundel, Sussex, or from a medieval nickname meaning ‘swallow’ (Old French arondel).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Arundel 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 English, from Arundel, Sussex, or nickname from OFr arondel ‘little swallow’; first attested Rogerius Arundel 1086 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A market town and civil parish with a town council in Arun district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ0107).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, borough, England
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Irish, An English (Sussex) toponymic associated with Co. Cork continuously since the end of the thirteenth century when Robert de Arundel was coroner of Ibawn. It is locally pronounced Aringale and gaelicized Airinnéal
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In French, a township municipality of Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality, Laurentides, Quebec, Canada
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Thomas Arundelb. 1353GBLord Chancellor of England; Archbishop of York; Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of Ely
- John Aclandb. 1823NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand farmer and politician (1823-1904)
- John T. Arundelb. 1841GBBritish guano and copra entrepreneur and botanical collector (1841-1919)
- Harry Arundelb. 1855USMajor League Baseball player
- George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galwayb. 1882GBnot in their usual nameBritish viceroy (1882-1943)
- Charles Arundel Moodyb. 1917GBBritish soldier
- Honor Arundelb. 1919GBBritish novelist of children's books
- John Arundelb. 1927CACanadian ice hockey defenceman (1927–2002)
- Frank Arundelb. 1939GBEnglish footballer (1939-1994)
- Jim Wallaceb. 2000AUnot in their usual nameAustralian army officer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 317 | #63,068 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 307 | #69,002 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 291 | #64,008 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #75,011 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #305,063 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #203,451 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arundel mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Arundel, Sussex, or from a medieval nickname meaning ‘swallow’ (Old French arondel). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Arundel have the most bearers?
- Arundel is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arundel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.