Arsema

given name · Arabic · Latin script

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

Arsema is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Eritrea it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • EREritrea1 in 65◐
  • ETEthiopia1 in 26K
  • SESweden1 in 31K

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

≈1.1K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
40 ●

374 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 31K ◐

Sweden

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 Arsema is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—671△101 rec.1 in 496K671Arsema40
NO Norway—6636 rec.—660Arsema2
ER Eritrea#106521 rec.—652Arsema2
SE Sweden—331△24 rec.1 in 31K331Arsema6
ET Ethiopia—148144 rec.——Arsema12
DK Denmark—47△3 rec.1 in 125K47Arsema11
SA Saudi Arabia—304 rec.——Arsema3
AE United Arab Emirates—1519 rec.——Arsema6
GB United Kingdom—123 rec.—listedArsema8
NL Netherlands—1120 rec.1 in 1.6M11Arsema5
FI Finland—80 rec.1 in 696K29Arsema2
CH Switzerland—78 rec.——Arsema2

Roughly 671 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 496K). 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●

  • Arabic73724%
  • Norwegian Bokmål66022%
  • English49716%
  • Amharic33211%
  • 2548%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic73724%
Norwegian Bokmål66022%
English49716%
Amharic33211%
2548%

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◐

Arsema is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name669 records spelled Arsema6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Netherlands, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Âŕšęmà

30 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●

020406020002010202060 · 2015

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Arsema in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1995–2025
Yearrecords
19956
19997
20007
20017
20025
20038
20048
20059
200614
200711
200814
200927
201022
201136
201230
201337
201436
201560
201639
201743
201847
201947
202041
202126
202230
202335
202427
202528

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1995–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Arsema
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020671#16,702
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—660#2,108
ER EritreaThe page presents a list of the most popular baby names in Eritrea, published by Names.org.1880652#5
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—331#3,673
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020219—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019199—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018164—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017137—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201694—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201578—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201461—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201560—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 96 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Arsema?
We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Arsema (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Arsema have the most bearers?
We estimate about 671 people bear Arsema in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled arsema.
How common is Arsema compared with other names?
In Eritrea, Arsema is the 10th most common given name of 73 given names recorded there.
Is Arsema a male or female name?
Arsema 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.
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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, “Arsema” — the 10th most common given name in Eritrea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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