Arza

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Biblical name

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/arsa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Arza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Paraguay than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 41K
  • ARArgentina1 in 75K

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.

Paraguay (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,300 people, est.

Sources
87 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Biblical name

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arza 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.

Where Arza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PY Paraguay#336≈1,300 est.≈1 in 5.5K—Arza25
ES Spain—1,2091 in 41K1.2KArza87
BO Bolivia#944≈690 est.≈1 in 17K—Arza24
AR Argentina—6101 in 75K610Arza43
BR Brazil—2541 in 834K254Arza35
UY Uruguay—291 in 117K29—5

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Arza is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Arzà

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States

    Also written Arzã

  • Bulgarian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Spain

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Арза, Аржа, Arzà, Arža

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Arza is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Earth or Land

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In Serbo-Croatian, izvještaj

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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)

190019201940196019802000Antonio Arza Arteaga, b. 1914Juan Arza, b. 1923Juan Manuel Arza Muñuzuri, b. 1932Donaldo Arza, b. 1946Magdalena Álvarez, b. 1952Pernando Barrena, b. 1965José Arza, b. 1969Carlos Viver, b. 1973Rosa María Arza Rodríguez, b. 1987Pere Rafart i Arza, b. 1989

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)

FormalEstimado/a Arza,Dear Arza, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Arza,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Arza
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.2K#3,741
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.2K#3,739
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—610—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—254#30,240
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—29—

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Arza mean, and where does it come from?
Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Arza?
A machine transcription gives /arsa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Arza have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Arza in Paraguay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arza.
How common is the name Arza?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,209 people named Arza, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
How common is Arza compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Arza is the 336th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Arza” — the 336th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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