Arunas
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arunas is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script.
- LTLithuania1 in 134◐
- NONorway1 in 15K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 176K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈21K ●
- Sources
- 119 ●
- 1 in 134 ◐
across 10 countries
5.4K records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #95 | 20,354△ | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 134 | 20K | Arunas | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,177 | 788 rec. | — | listed | Arunas | 56 |
| FI Finland | — | 452 | 0 rec. | — | 221 | Arunas | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 362△ | 102 rec. | 1 in 15K | 1.4K | Arunas | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | 232 | 204 rec. | — | — | Arunas | 38 |
| US United States | — | 221 | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 221 | Arunas | 99 |
| SE Sweden | — | 113△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 90K | 113 | Arunas | 10 |
| FR France | — | 101 | 92 rec. | — | — | Arunas | 37 |
| IE Ireland | — | 99 | 90 rec. | — | — | Arunas | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 96 | 115 rec. | 1 in 521K | 96 | Arunas | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | 88 | 77 rec. | — | 1 | Arunas | 21 |
| CA Canada | — | 63 | 63 rec. | — | — | Arunas | 18 |
Roughly 20K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 134). 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●
- Lithuanian46K90%
- Norwegian Bokmål1.4K3%
- English1.4K3%
- Finnish4561%
- Spanish3531%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 46,331 | 90% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,444 | 3% |
| English | 1,403 | 3% |
| Finnish | 456 | 1% |
| Spanish | 353 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 10 |
| 1966 | 11 |
| 1967 | 18 |
| 1968 | 15 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 16 |
| 1971 | 16 |
| 1972 | 18 |
| 1973 | 24 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 14 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 18 |
| 1978 | 14 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 14 |
| 1985 | 13 |
| 1986 | 14 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 4 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1994 | 4 |
| 1995 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 29 years between 1963–1995. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Arūnas Žebriūnasb. 1930LTLithuanian film director and screenwriter
- Arūnas Storpirštisb. 1950LTLithuanian actor (1950-2018)
- Arūnas Degutisb. 1958LTLithuanian politician
- Arūnas Matelisb. 1961LTLithuanian filmmaker
- Arūnas Bubnysb. 1961LTLithuanian historian
- Arūnas Kundrotasb. 1963LTLithuanian economist
- Arūnas Visockasb. 1965LTLithuanian basketball player (born 1965)
- Arūnas Valinskasb. 1966LTLithuania politician, actor and producer
- Arūnas Gelūnasb. 1968LTLithuanian politician and diplomat
- Arūnas Klimavičiusb. 1982LTLithuanian footballer
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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 · 209 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Arunas?
- We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Arunas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Arunas have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Arunas in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled arunas.
- Where is Arunas most common?
- Arunas is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 134 people carrying it.
- How common is Arunas compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Arunas is the 95th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Arunas a male or female name?
- Arunas 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
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, “Arunas” — the 95th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.