Arâ
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Arâ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Old Tupi arara (“macaw”).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 28K
- INIndia1 in 91Kas Ari
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Arâ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ara in IN India, ES Spain, ID Indonesia, আরা in BD Bangladesh and Aara in PK Pakistan.
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)
Borrowed from Old Tupi arara (“macaw”).
Sources 13
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arâ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #262 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | আরা | 78 |
| IN India | — | 14,566as Ari | 1 in 91K | 15K | Ara | 68 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Ara | 92 |
| FI Finland | — | 4,707as Aro | 1 in 1.2K | 35K | — | 2 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 1 | Aara | 41 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,563 | 1 in 32K | 1.6K | Ara | 105 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 167 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Arâ 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 fur, to plough
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arâ mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Old Tupi arara (“macaw”). Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 11 other sources.
- Is Arâ a male or female name?
- Arâ 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.
- In which country does Arâ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Arâ in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled আরা.
- How common is the name Arâ?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,563 people named Arâ, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Arâ compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Arâ is the 262nd most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ar%C3%A2The 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, “Arâ” — the 262nd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.