Arpad
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arpad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Biblical name.
- HUHungary1 in 475(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 7.8K
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 11K
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.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- 1 in 475 (inferred from the name graph)
20,564 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Arpád in SK Slovakia.
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)
Biblical name
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arpad 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #69 | 20,564 | 1 in 475 | 21K | Arpad | 142 |
| RO Romania | #352 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Arpad | 53 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Arpad | 87 |
| RS Serbia | #687 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | listed | Arpad | 28 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 600 | 1 in 18K | 600 | Arpad | 29 |
| SK Slovakia | #224 | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Arpád | 41 |
20,564 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025, counting the spelling árpád. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Arpad is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Arpacık.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Arpadb. 845Grand Prince of the Hungarians
- Árpád Tóthb. 1886HUHungarian poet (1886–1928)
- René Spitzb. 1887ATnot in their usual nameAustrian-American psychoanalyst
- Árpád Szakasitsb. 1888HUHungarian politician (1888-1965)
- Arpad Elob. 1903USHungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating
- Árpád Gönczb. 1922HUHungarian politician, writer, translator, President of Hungary (1922-2015)
- Adrian Hovenb. 1922ATnot in their usual nameAustrian actor (1922–1981)
- Frank Darabontb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican film director, screenwriter and producer
- Árpád Miklósb. 1967HUHungarian pornographic actor
- Attila Szalaib. 1998HUnot in their usual nameHungarian association football player (born 1998)
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 39 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 18 | #3,532 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 9 | #2,645 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Arpad mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Arpad have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Arpad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arpad.
- Where is Arpad most common?
- Arpad is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 475 people carrying it.
- Is Arpad a male or female name?
- Arpad 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.
- How common is the name Arpad?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 20,564 people named Arpad in 2025, about 1 in 475 residents.
- How common is Arpad compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Arpad is the 69th most common given name of 18,528 given names 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/arpadThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Arpad” — the 69th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.