The Aranda surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 19,298 people carried this name — #1,861 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 15,300 people counted. That is up 31% from 14,683 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 64,590 people named Aranda live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 258 people named Aranda.
Most of them — 145 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 32 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
151 people named Aranda live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
35 people named Aranda is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Aranda in American newspapers,
1857–1952.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 6,617 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Aranda,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ramón Aranda y Calpe 1838–1890 · jurist -
Joaquín Aranda 1848–1916 · military personnel -
Vicente Aranda 1855–1926 · military personnel -
Angélico Aranda 1870–1961 · painter -
Antonio Aranda 1888–1979 · military personnel
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 158 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Aranda.
- Arakelian 1,291 · U.S. census
- Arambel 103 · U.S. census
- Aramburu 378 · U.S. census
- Aramini 188 · U.S. census
- Aran 300 · U.S. census
- Arana 10,698 · U.S. census
- Aras 269 · U.S. census
- Arata 1,395 · U.S. census
- Araujo 18,856 · U.S. census
- Arban 187 · U.S. census
- Arbeit 119 · U.S. census
- Arbogast 5,625 · U.S. census
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