The Arrieta surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,053 people carried this name — #6,684 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 58,500 people counted. That is up 38% from 3,665 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Arrieta surname
Borrowed from Spanish Arrieta, from Basque Arrieta (literally “rocky place”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Arrieta» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 21,047 people named Arrieta 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 158 people named Arrieta.
32 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
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
43 people named Arrieta live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 print
Arrieta in American newspapers,
1914–1921.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,594 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Arrieta,
with a public archive behind them.
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Agustín Arrieta 1803–1874 · painter -
Agustín Arrieta 1803–1874 · painter
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Emilio Arrieta 1823–1894 · composer -
José Arrieta 1833–1911 · diplomat -
Rosita Arrieta 1885–2000 · actor -
Joel Enrique Uparela Arrieta d. 2007
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Arrieta.
- Aron 2,455 · U.S. census
- Aronica 339 · U.S. census
- Arpin 999 · U.S. census
- Arpino 467 · U.S. census
- Arras 981 · U.S. census
- Arribas 217 · U.S. census
- Arrighi 419 · U.S. census
- Arrigo 1,576 · U.S. census
- Arrigoni 487 · U.S. census
- Arro 119 · U.S. census
- Arroyo 50,614 · U.S. census
- Arrufat 100 · U.S. census
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