Ártico

loc · Latin script

Ártico is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin arcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “northern, of the (Great) Bear”), from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear, Ursa Major”).

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 165K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 294K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 87K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

719 people

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Artico in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 2 more.

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)

Derivation of Ártico: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ártico
  1. Latinarcticus(measured from records)
  2. Ancient Greekἀρκτικόςarktikós(measured from records)
  3. Ancient Greek rootἄρκτοςárktos“bear, Ursa Major”(measured from records)

From Latin arcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “northern, of the (Great) Bear”), from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear, Ursa Major”).

Sources 2

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ártico 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 Ártico is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil7191 in 294K719Artico50
IT Italy≈720 est.≈1 in 87KlistedArtico20
AR Argentina2751 in 165K275Artico33
FR France≈150 est.≈1 in 451K23—2
US United States≈38 est.≈1 in 8.8M—Artico36
CH Switzerland371 in 227K37Artico8

719 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Ártico is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Artico

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ártico under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ártico mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin arcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “northern, of the (Great) Bear”), from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear, Ursa Major”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani.
In which country does Ártico have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 719 people named Ártico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled artico.
How common is the name Ártico?
In Brazil, the national register counted 719 people named Ártico, about 1 in 294 thousand residents.

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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, “Ártico”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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