Arent
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Drying out, parching, withering
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/aɾẽt/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Arent is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- BBBarbados≈1 in 14Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 28K
- DKDenmark1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,356 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Drying out, parching, withering.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arent 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 1,356 | 1 in 28K | 682 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,186 | 1 in 280K | 1.2K | Arent | 210 |
| BR Brazil | — | 586 | 1 in 361K | 586 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 207K | listed | Arent | 61 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 431K | — | Arent | 36 |
| DK Denmark | — | 122 | 1 in 48K | 122 | — | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Arent | 6 |
| BB Barbados | #354 | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Arent | 2 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Arent | 1 |
1,356 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the dfa-band-1 register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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)Arent is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Deutscher Familienname; zeigt d/t-Variation im Auslaut nach n. 241 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Kurzform zu Arnold; reduzierte Variante mit -t, 241 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In Latin, third-person plural present active subjunctive of arō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, harvest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, around
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Emanuel Arentb. 1856CZHolocaust victim (born 1856)
- Wilhelm Arentb. 1864DEGerman poet and writer (1864–1913)
- Ing. Emil Arentb. 1880CZHolocaust victim (born 1880)
- Emil Arentb. 1886CZHolocaust victim (born 1886)
- Benno von Arentb. 1898DEGerman politician and SS officer (1898-1956)
- Arthur Arentb. 1904USAmerican dramatist (1904-1972)
- Arno Arentb. 1922CZHolocaust victim (born 1922)
- Leszek Arentb. 1937PLPolish basketball player (1937-2016)
- Patrice M. Arentb. 1956USAmerican politician
- Iwona Arentb. 1968PLPolish politician
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,582 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 954 | #26,876 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 682 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 682 | #4,675 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 674 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 674 | #4,627 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 586 | #14,744 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 122 | #4,491 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Arent mean, and where does it come from?
- Drying out, parching, withering. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Arent?
- In Portuguese /aɾẽt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Arent have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Arent, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Arent?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,356 people named Arent in 2026, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Arent compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Arent is the 354th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Arent” — the 354th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.