Arnis
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arnis is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- LVLatvia1 in 444◐
- ALAlbania1 in 27K
- ISIceland1 in 35K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.6K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 82 ●
- 1 in 444 ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
2.0K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Арнис in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, KZ Kazakhstan and Арніс in UA Ukraine.
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●
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 9 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #111 | 4,236△ | 972 rec. | 1 in 444 | 4.2K | Arnis | 68 |
| RU Russia | — | 425 | 283 rec. | — | — | Арнис | 64 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 175 | 90 rec. | — | — | Arnis | 34 |
| FI Finland | — | 150 | 3 rec. | — | 124 | Arnis | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | 121 | 20 rec. | — | 56 | Arnis | 9 |
| US United States | — | 117 | 345 rec. | 1 in 2.8M | 117 | Arnis | 82 |
| AL Albania | — | 115 | — | 1 in 27K | 115 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | — | 90 | 88 rec. | — | — | Арніс | 8 |
| LT Lithuania | — | 54 | 27 rec. | — | listed | Arnis | 22 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 46 | 0 rec. | 1 in 46K | 46 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 37△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 276K | 37 | — | 11 |
| IN India | — | 33 | 19 rec. | — | — | Arnis | 3 |
Roughly 4.2K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 444). 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●
- Latvian7.1K61%
- English1.2K10%
- Indonesian6796%
- Albanian4254%
- German3063%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 7,120 | 61% |
| English | 1,215 | 10% |
| Indonesian | 679 | 6% |
| Albanian | 425 | 4% |
| German | 306 | 3% |
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●
Arnis is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Traditional Philippine stickfighting, a martial art.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, arnis (Philippine stick fighting)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1983 | 1 |
| 1984 | 1 |
| 1985 | 4 |
| 1986 | 1 |
| 1987 | 2 |
| 1988 | 3 |
| 1989 | 1 |
| 1991 | 1 |
| 1992 | 2 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 3 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 15 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 17 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 16 |
| 2003 | 16 |
| 2004 | 21 |
| 2005 | 22 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 26 |
| 2008 | 27 |
| 2009 | 36 |
| 2010 | 33 |
| 2011 | 39 |
| 2012 | 47 |
| 2013 | 36 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 16 |
| 2016 | 17 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 23 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 4 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 42 years between 1983–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Arnis Kalniņšb. 1935LVLatvian politician
- Arnis Akmeņlauksb. 1937LVLatvian film director
- Arnis Blumbergsb. 1939(1939) photographer
- Arnis Līcītisb. 1946LVLatvian actor (1946–2022)
- Arnis Mednisb. 1961LVLatvian singer
- Arnis Cimdarsb. 1962LVLatvian politician
- Arnis Veidemanisb. 1972LVLatvian male curler and coach (born 1972)
- Arnis Vecvagarsb. 1974LVLatvian basketball player and coach (born 1974)
- Arnis Balcusb. 1978LVLatvian artist (born 1978)
- Arnis Rumbenieksb. 1988LVLatvian track and field athlete (born 1988)
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 33 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 4.2K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 4.2K | #123 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 572 | #1,052 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 196 | #4,842 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 124 | #4,603 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 117 | #48,840 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 115 | #2,626 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 56 | #902 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2012 | 47 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2011 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 37 | #16,833 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 36 | — |
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 · 141 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Arnis?
- We estimate roughly 4.6 thousand people bear Arnis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Arnis have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.2 thousand people bear Arnis in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled arnis.
- Where is Arnis most common?
- Arnis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 444 people carrying it.
- How common is Arnis compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Arnis is the 111th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
- Is Arnis a male or female name?
- Arnis 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 Arnis mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
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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, “Arnis” — the 111th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.