Arnel

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Arnel is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is the 96th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1K◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 29K
  • USUnited States1 in 127K

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

≈3.2K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
217 ●

134K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 11K ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

ArnelLatin · Spanish●138K records
อาร์เนลThai · Thai●6 records

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Arnel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#96166,841121K rec.—179KArnel107
ID Indonesia—3,1063K rec.—listedArnel31
US United States—2,6276.5K rec.1 in 127K2.6KArnel217
TH Thailand—809394 rec.——Arnel18
CA Canada—537516 rec.—5Arnel48
FR France—435403 rec.—1Arnel76
VE Venezuela—394388 rec.——Arnel9
CO Colombia—383248 rec.——Arnel27
GB United Kingdom—264168 rec.——Arnel25
MX Mexico—197108 rec.——Arnel17
SI Slovenia—195△2 rec.1 in 11K196Arnel2
JP Japan—15395 rec.——Arnel26

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

Languages●

  • Spanish138K57%
  • English51K21%
  • Indonesian14K6%
  • Hungarian9.2K4%
  • Portuguese4.6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish137,83857%
English51,30021%
Indonesian14,3226%
Hungarian9,2254%
Portuguese4,6032%

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◐

Arnel is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name58K records spelled Arnel11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Arnél, Ärñêl

  • Arabic given name2.0K records spelled Arnel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Qatar

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written Arñel

  • Croatian given name955 records spelled Arnel16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Philippines, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian

    Also written Арнел, Арнель

  • a separate given name104 records spelled Arnel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States

    Also written Ârñèl

32 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.

Over time●

0510152019201940196019802000202020 · 1970

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Arnel in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1913–2021
Yearrecords
19139
19157
19165
19186
19196
192015
192110
19228
19239
19266
19286
19299
19308
193113
19328
19335
193414
19356
19375
19396
19407
19438
19456
19536
19599
19605
19616
196216
19638
19648
196714
196810
19698
197020
197112
197213
197311
197413
197514
19766
19778
19787
197912
19809
198111
198210
198312
198416
19857
198611
198714
198815
198910
199016
199110
199316
199410
199512
199615
199714
19988
199916
20009
200117
200214
200315
200412
20057
200615
200712
200815
200917
20108
20119
20126
20137
20145
20157
20167
20177
20218

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 81 years between 1913–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Arnel Dedić, b. 1976Arnel Taci, b. 1986Lex Luger, b. 1991Arnel Amita, b. 1995

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 53 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Arnel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking2022179K#25
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.6K#6,020
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010205#90,113
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000205#84,968
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—196#1,021
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025195#514
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020181#105,198
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024179#532
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023165#550
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021154#560
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020101#6,020
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—93#16,760

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 265 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Arnel?
We estimate roughly 3.2 thousand people bear Arnel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Arnel have the most bearers?
Arnel is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled arnel.
How common is Arnel compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Arnel is the 96th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Arnel a male or female name?
Arnel 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.
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About this data

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

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, “Arnel” — the 96th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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