Aras
surname · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aras is a surname, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. Kendisininmiş gibi sahip çıkılan, bulunmuş mal.2.
- TRTürkiye1 in 2.1K◐
- CYCyprus1 in 9.3K
- HRCroatia1 in 31K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- Sources
- 103 ●
- 1 in 31K ◐
across 13 countries
265K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Araş in SY Syria, TM Turkmenistan.
Meaning & origin●
1. Kendisininmiş gibi sahip çıkılan, bulunmuş mal.2. Doğu Anadolu’da bir ırmak.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #193 | 147,232 | 260K rec. | — | 3.3K | Aras | 88 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 424 | 553 rec. | — | 274 | Aras | 17 |
| BE Belgium | — | 309 | 339 rec. | 1 in 38K | 408 | Aras | 16 |
| US United States | — | 269 | 882 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 381 | Aras | 103 |
| BR Brazil | — | 243 | — | 1 in 871K | 243 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 176△ | 14 rec. | 1 in 284K | 176 | — | 10 |
| PH Philippines | — | 169 | 166 rec. | — | — | Aras | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 144 | 282 rec. | — | 3 | Aras | 35 |
| HR Croatia | — | 135 | — | 1 in 31K | 135 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 128 | 334 rec. | — | 614 | Aras | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 125 | 178 rec. | 1 in 67K | 125 | Aras | 8 |
| CY Cyprus | #636 | 102 | 374 rec. | — | — | Aras | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish148K86%
- German4.4K3%
- English3.3K2%
- French2.9K2%
- Spanish2.6K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 148,003 | 86% |
| German | 4,416 | 3% |
| English | 3,343 | 2% |
| French | 2,939 | 2% |
| Spanish | 2,602 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Aras 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 English, Turkish name for Araks
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Aquila
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Kurdish, The Aras river, meeting
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Filipino, coins given by the bridegroom to the bride during the wedding ceremony
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of arō
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 13 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 26 |
| 2015 | 23 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 27 |
| 2019 | 26 |
| 2020 | 23 |
| 2021 | 28 |
| 2022 | 24 |
| 2023 | 29 |
| 2024 | 39 |
| 2025 | 34 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 26 years between 1961–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Tevfik Rüştü Arasb. 1883TRTurkish statesperson (1883–1972)
- Roque Arasb. 1932BRBrazilian banker, lawyer and politician, was a federal deputy for Bahia
- Ahmet Arasb. 1944TRTurkish researcher (born 1944)
- Işık Arasb. 1947TRTurkish actor (born 1947)
- Ömer Arasb. 1954TRTurkish banker (born 1954)
- Augusto Arasb. 1958BRBrazilian lawyer
- Juan Vicente Pérez Arasb. 1963ESSpanish politician
- Muhterem Arasb. 1966TRTurkish-German politician (born 1966)
- Yıldız Arasb. 1977TRTurkish mixed martial artist (born 1977)
- Ahmet Arasb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
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●
Attested in 71 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 3.3K | #10 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 812 | #98 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 614 | #2,393 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 574 | #2,291 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 436 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 430 | #749 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 408 | #3,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 381 | #23,303 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 373 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 313 | #67,846 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 309 | #5,324 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 274 | #4,573 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 325 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aras?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Aras (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Aras have the most bearers?
- Aras is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled aras.
- How common is Aras compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Aras is the 193rd most common surname of 634,557 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Aras mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Kendisininmiş gibi sahip çıkılan, bulunmuş mal.2.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aras” — the 193rd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.