Arna
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arna is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Icelandic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a borough of Bergen, Vestland, Norway.
- ISIceland1 in 302◐
- NONorway1 in 12K
- USUnited States1 in 751K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.4K ●
- Sources
- 130 ●
- 1 in 302 ◐
across 11 countries
6.8K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
a borough of Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #131 | 1,163△ | 119 rec. | 1 in 302 | 1.2K | Arna | 54 |
| AU Australia | — | 788 | 745 rec. | — | 1 | Arna | 70 |
| NO Norway | — | 465△ | 138 rec. | 1 in 12K | 1.3K | Arna | 29 |
| US United States | — | 443 | 4.3K rec. | 1 in 751K | 443 | Arna | 130 |
| PH Philippines | — | 367 | 222 rec. | — | — | Arna | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 204 | 201 rec. | — | listed | Arna | 32 |
| CA Canada | — | 126 | 101 rec. | — | 1 | Arna | 16 |
| AR Argentina | — | 117 | 63 rec. | — | — | Arna | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 100△ | 23 rec. | 1 in 102K | 100 | Arna | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | 95 | 104 rec. | — | listed | Arna | 31 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 89 | 66 rec. | — | 11 | Arna | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 85 | 123 rec. | 1 in 203K | 85 | Arna | 14 |
Roughly 1.2K people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 302). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English5.5K28%
- Icelandic4.1K21%
- Hindi1.9K9%
- Norwegian Bokmål1.3K7%
- Indonesian1.2K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 5,467 | 28% |
| Icelandic | 4,082 | 21% |
| Hindi | 1,861 | 9% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,310 | 7% |
| Indonesian | 1,161 | 6% |
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●
Arna 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 Icelandic, indefinite genitive plural of örn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Arna är ett nordiskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på → Ar(i)n-. Det tycks ha varit vanligt i Skåne åtminstone sedan 1600-talet men inte varit särskilt frekvent längre norrut i landet. I modern tid har det uppfattats som femininform till → Arne. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 16 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Galician, bark (the exterior covering of the trunk of a tree, especially when thick and old)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A township in Pine County, Minnesota, United States.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, indefinite accusative/genitive plural of arinn
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1903 | 6 |
| 1917 | 6 |
| 1918 | 9 |
| 1919 | 9 |
| 1920 | 6 |
| 1921 | 10 |
| 1923 | 9 |
| 1924 | 6 |
| 1926 | 6 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1928 | 7 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1934 | 6 |
| 1935 | 6 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1942 | 6 |
| 1943 | 8 |
| 1944 | 9 |
| 1945 | 7 |
| 1946 | 6 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 8 |
| 1949 | 14 |
| 1950 | 15 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 9 |
| 1953 | 17 |
| 1954 | 13 |
| 1955 | 14 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 10 |
| 1960 | 7 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2014 | 21 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 18 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 28 |
| 2021 | 29 |
| 2022 | 24 |
| 2023 | 24 |
| 2024 | 24 |
| 2025 | 15 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 61 years between 1903–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Arna Bontempsb. 1902USAmerican poet, novelist (1902–1973)
- Arna Vågenb. 1905NONorwegian politician
- Arna Mer-Khamisb. 1929ILIsraeli politician
- Arna Mohelskáb. 1930CZCzech actress
- Arna Hagab. 1942NONorwegian museum director
- Arna Selznickb. 1950CACanadian animator
- Arna Toktaganb. 1986KZKazakhstani synchronised swimmer
- Arna Sif Pálsdóttirb. 1988IShandball player
- Arna Sif Ásgrímsdóttirb. 1992ISIcelandic association football player
- Arna Ýr Jónsdóttirb. 1995ISIcelandic 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●
Attested in 52 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 369 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Arna?
- We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear Arna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Arna have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.2 thousand people bear Arna in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled arna.
- Where is Arna most common?
- Arna is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 302 people carrying it.
- How common is Arna compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Arna is the 131st most common given name of 4,856 given names recorded there.
- Is Arna a male or female name?
- Arna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Arna mean?
- Recorded meaning: a borough of Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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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.
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, “Arna” — the 131st most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.