Arzú
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arzú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish آرزو, from Persian آرزو (ârezu).
- NLNetherlands1 in 38K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 56K
- SESweden1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
525 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arzu in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)
- Ottoman Turkishآرزو(measured from records)
- Persianآرزوârezu(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish آرزو, from Persian آرزو (ârezu).
Sources 5
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arzú 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 | 525 | 1 in 634K | 1.4K | Arzu | 143 |
| NL Netherlands | 456 | 1 in 38K | 456 | Arzu | 6 |
| PL Poland | 179 | 1 in 214K | 129 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 161 | 1 in 63K | 161 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 104 | 1 in 56K | 101 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 11 | 1 in 171K | 12 | — | — |
525 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)
- Alvaro Arzúb. 1946GTGuatemalan President (1996-2000)
- Roberto Arzúb. 1970GTGuatemalan politician and businessman
- Felicita Arzúb. 1985BZBelizean model
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arzú mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish آرزو, from Persian آرزو (ârezu). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Arzú have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 525 people named Arzú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arzu.
- Where is Arzú most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arzú is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arzú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 525 people named Arzú in 2020, about 1 in 634 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Arzú?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arz%C3%BAThe 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, “Arzú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.