Arnason

Name: Arnason: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Arnason is a surname, most frequently recorded in Iceland, where it is the 23rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Icelandic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: see Arnison .

rarermore common

USUnited States1 in 1.7M◐
ISIceland1 in 363
VIU.S. Virgin Islands1 in 2.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

: ≈394 ●
Sources: 103 ●
: 1 in 55K ◐

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Árnason623

Locally spelled Árnason in IS Iceland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

see Arnison .

Sources 2

A Dictionary of English Surnames
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Arnason is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
IS Iceland	#23	906	344 rec.	—	2	Árnason	72
CA Canada	—	575	499 rec.	—	—	Arnason	68
US United States	—	198	2.3K rec.	1 in 1.7M	235	Arnason	103
AU Australia	—	107	101 rec.	—	—	Arnason	18
NO Norway	—	100△	30 rec.	1 in 55K	100	Arnason	11
DE Germany	—	74	64 rec.	—	—	Arnason	23
GB United Kingdom	—	64	53 rec.	—	listed	Arnason	14
SE Sweden	—	49	45 rec.	1 in 208K	49	Arnason	11
DK Denmark	—	41	25 rec.	1 in 143K	41	Arnason	30
IE Ireland	—	22	22 rec.	—	—	Arnason	3
AT Austria	—	14	14 rec.	—	—	Arnason	3
PH Philippines	—	11	11 rec.	—	—	Arnason	2
IT Italy	—	11	18 rec.	—	—	Arnason	4
VI U.S. Virgin Islands	#44	10	29 rec.	—	—	Arnason	1
ES Spain	—	10	12 rec.	—	—	Arnason	5
RW Rwanda	—	8	8 rec.	—	—	Arnason	1
BR Brazil	—	7	3 rec.	—	—	Arnason	5
RU Russia	—	7	14 rec.	—	—	Arnason	4
PL Poland	—	3	—	1 in 13M	3	—	—
CZ Czechia	—	2	—	1 in 5.4M	2	—	—
BE Belgium	—	1	1 rec.	1 in 12M	1	—	1
ZA South Africa	—	—	2 rec.	—	listed	—	1
EE Estonia	—	—	—	—	listed	—	—

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

English2.6K63%
Icelandic54513%
Danish1754%
Spanish1524%
Swedish1032%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
English	2,622	63%
Icelandic	545	13%
Danish	175	4%
Spanish	152	4%
Swedish	103	2%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Arnason is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate surname93 records spelled Arnason3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Canada
Also written Árnason, Àrnason
Norwegian surname43 records spelled Arnason2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Árnason
French surname42 records spelled Arnason3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Canada, France
Also written Árnason, Ãrnason
Polish surname16 records spelled Arnason3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland
Also written Árnason, Ãrnason
Estonian name15 records spelled Arnason4 spellings in the group
Also written Ãrnason, Árnason
Swahili surname14 records spelled Arnason3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Árnason
Arabic name13 records spelled Arnason4 spellings in the group
Also written Árnason, Ãrnason
Czech surname12 records spelled Arnason2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia
Also written Ãrnason

22 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

Jón Árnasonb. 1150GLRoman Catholic bishop
A. P. Arnasonb. 1903CACanadian entomologist
Elizabeth M. Heissb. 1907USnot in their usual nameentomologist
David Arnasonb. 1940CACanadian writer
Eleanor Arnasonb. 1942USAmerican writer of science fiction novels and short stories
Chuck Arnasonb. 1951CACanadian ice hockey player
Tyler Arnasonb. 1979USAmerican ice hockey player
Herra Hnetusmjörb. 1996ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic rapper
Lýður Árnasonfilm director
Garðar ÁrnasonCAIcelandic philosopher

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 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Arnason
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	235	#85,600
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	198	#92,719
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	177	#95,567
NO Norway	SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)	—	100	#15,397
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	49	#12,835
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	22	#21,877
BE Belgium	Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)	2008	1	#180,164
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	1	#67,068
GB United Kingdom	A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991)	—	—	—
ZA South Africa	MasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna)	—	—	—
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)	—	—	—

Reference works 2

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Arnason?: We estimate roughly 394 people bear Arnason (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Arnason have the most bearers?: Arnason is most frequently recorded in Iceland, where it is most often spelled árnason.
How common is Arnason compared with other names?: In Iceland, Arnason is the 23rd most common surname of 7,902 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Arnason mean?: Recorded meaning: see Arnison .

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. 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, “Arnason” — the 23rd most common surname in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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