Arvanitis
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɑɹvəˈnaɪtɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arvanitis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Αρβανίτης (Arvanítis).
- GRGreece≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 591K
- BZBelize≈1 in 36K
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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Αρβανιτης in GR Greece.
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 Greek Αρβανίτης (Arvanítis).
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arvanitis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #808 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 24 | Αρβανιτης | 78 |
| US United States | — | 563 | 1 in 591K | 563 | Arvanitis | 182 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Arvanitis | 70 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 269K | — | Arvanitis | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 472K | — | Arvanitis | 46 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Arvanitis | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Arvanitis | 11 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Arvanitis | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)
- Giorgos Arvanitisb. 1941GRGreek cinematographer
- Konstantinos Arvanitisb. 1964GRjournalist and politician
- Theodoros N. Arvanitisb. 1968GBresearcher
- Dimitrios A. Arvanitisb. 2000GRresearcher
- Dimitrios ArvanitisGRresearcher
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 563 | #41,648 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 563 | #39,117 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 497 | #41,320 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Arvanitis mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Greek Αρβανίτης (Arvanítis). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Arvanitis?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑɹvəˈnaɪtɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Arvanitis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 564 people named Arvanitis in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled αρβανιτης.
- How common is the name Arvanitis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 563 people named Arvanitis in 2010, about 1 in 591 thousand residents.
- How common is Arvanitis compared with other names?
- In Greece, Arvanitis is the 808th most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arvanitisThe 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, “Arvanitis” — the 808th most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.