Arbogast
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a Germanic compound personal name meaning literally 'inheritance-stranger' (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Arbogast is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 5,625 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 59K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 200K
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
5,625 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From a Germanic compound personal name meaning literally 'inheritance-stranger'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Arbogast is found
(measured from records)Arbogast 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,625 | 1 in 59K | 5.6K | Arbogast | 78 |
| CH Switzerland | 42 | 1 in 200K | 42 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | Arbogast | 6 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
5,625 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Émile Arbogastb. 1901FRFrench swimmer
- Thierry Arbogastb. 1957FRFrench cinematographer
- Luc Arbogastb. 1975FRFrench artist and singer, songwriter
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)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arbogast mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Germanic compound personal name meaning literally 'inheritance-stranger'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Arbogast?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Arbogast, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arbogast. After it come Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Arbogast most common?
- Arbogast is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Arbogast?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,625 people named Arbogast in 2010, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arbogastThe 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, “Arbogast” — ranked 5838th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.