Arnaud
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arnaud is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Germanic Arnwald/Arnold, from arn 'eagle' + wald 'rule'.
- FRFrance1 in 504◐
- BEBelgium1 in 1.1K
- CMCameroon1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈136K ●
- Sources
- 406 ●
- 1 in 504 ◐
across 8 countries
515K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
From Germanic Arnwald/Arnold, from arn 'eagle' + wald 'rule'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 11 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #126 | 134,730 | 482K rec. | 1 in 504 | 135K | Arnaud | 406 |
| BE Belgium | #106 | 13,484 | 13K rec. | — | 74 | Arnaud | 152 |
| CH Switzerland | #384 | 1,738 | 1.2K rec. | — | 204 | Arnaud | 107 |
| CM Cameroon | #45 | 1,682 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Arnaud | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,177 | 760 rec. | — | listed | Arnaud | 103 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,097 | 1.2K rec. | — | 273 | Arnaud | 105 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #548 | 966 | 1K rec. | — | — | Arnaud | 32 |
| US United States | — | 851 | 7.7K rec. | 1 in 391K | 1.4K | Arnaud | 231 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 627 | 374 rec. | — | 544 | Arnaud | 67 |
| BR Brazil | — | 211△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 1M | 211 | — | 1 |
| TH Thailand | — | 186 | 137 rec. | — | — | Arnaud | 41 |
| PL Poland | — | 125△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 306K | 125 | — | 1 |
Roughly 135K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 504). 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●
- French932K95%
- English15K2%
- Portuguese6K1%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)2.9K1%
- Spanish2.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 932,017 | 95% |
| English | 15,261 | 2% |
| Portuguese | 5,986 | 1% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 2,862 | 1% |
| Spanish | 2,831 | 1% |
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●
Arnaud 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 French, a male given name, equivalent to English Arnold
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, du nom germanique Arnwald, de arn « aigle » et wald « pouvoir, autorité »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In Italian, variante regional setentrional de Arnaldo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Germanic name meaning « aigle qui gouverne ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Italian, Variante di Arnaldi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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 |
|---|---|
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 15 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 15 |
| 1973 | 10 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1986 | 20 |
| 1987 | 20 |
| 1988 | 25 |
| 1989 | 15 |
| 1990 | 25 |
| 1991 | 30 |
| 1992 | 30 |
| 1993 | 30 |
| 1994 | 25 |
| 1995 | 25 |
| 1996 | 25 |
| 1997 | 25 |
| 1998 | 40 |
| 1999 | 40 |
| 2000 | 25 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 25 |
| 2004 | 25 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2017 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 70 years between 1925–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Arnaud Denjoyb. 1884FRFrench mathematician (1884-1974)
- Arnaud Desplechinb. 1960FRFrench film director and screenwriter (born 1960)
- Arnaud Lagardèreb. 1961FRFrench businessman
- Arnaud Larrieub. 1966FRfilm director
- Arnaud Beltrameb. 1973FRofficer in the French gendarmerie
- Arnaud Clémentb. 1977FRFrench tennis player
- Julien Absalonb. 1980FRnot in their usual nameFrench cyclist
- Arnaud Sutchuinb. 1989CMCameroonian footballer
- Arnaud Kalimuendob. 2002FRFrench footballer (born 2002)
- Arnaud GaudryCHresearcher
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 74 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 135K | #1,032 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,306 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,527 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 851 | #13,943 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 544 | #3,021 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 273 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 211 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 211 | #24,462 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 204 | #6,166 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 183 | #3,666 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 373 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Arnaud?
- We estimate roughly 136 thousand people bear Arnaud (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Arnaud have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 135 thousand people bear Arnaud in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled arnaud.
- Where is Arnaud most common?
- Arnaud is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 504 people carrying it.
- How common is Arnaud compared with other names?
- In France, Arnaud is the 126th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Arnaud a male or female name?
- Arnaud is a male 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 Arnaud mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Germanic Arnwald/Arnold, from arn 'eagle' + wald 'rule'.
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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, “Arnaud” — the 126th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.