Arbogast is used as a family name or surname in France. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Arbogast
No. of characters: 8
Origin: France
Meaning: Met in the Lower Rhine and Moselle, this is a person of Germanic origin name formed on arb roots (= legacy) and gast (= host). It was popularized by St. Arbogast (e), bishop of Strasbourg in the seventh century when he lived as a hermit in the Vosges forest, the King Dagobert II, knowing his virtues, made him come to Strasbourg to succeed Bishop Lothario who had just died.

How popular is Arbogast?

Arbogast is common in France.

Arbogast is ranked 48419 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Arbogast bearers increased by 3.629329 per cent in 2010 US census to 5625 since 2000, the surname slipped by 260 spots and ranked at 6098. The last name was found in around 19 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.06 95.97
Hispanic or Latino 2.24 1.88
Others 1.56 1.31
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.62 0.64
Black 0.36 0.09
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.16 0.11
Arbogast is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Luxembourg is ahead in terms of density. Around 9856 people have been found who wears Arbogast as their family name. Arbogast is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
116,327 Spain6
108,034 Italy3
897,276 Russia1
810,193 Indonesia1
23,434 Burkina Faso1
53,505 Turkey1
118,015 Netherlands1
29,046 Japan1
16,640 Hong Kong1
289,511 England1
7,340 Democratic Republic of The Congo1
91,024 Belgium1
37,493 Austria1
7,191 Afghanistan1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
1,588 Luxembourg40
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
11,610 Switzerland99
54,886 Canada55
Countries with hundreds of Arbogast:
20,699 Germany504
Countries with thousands of Arbogast:
6,282 United States6,184
3,386 Tanzania1,532
6,034 France1,421
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Comments

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Matt Douglass
Arbogast is an Alsatian or German family name, designating the recipient of a heritage that name comes from the Germanic meaning herb heritage and gast meaning breakfast it is originally a nickname became an heir patronymic.

Arbogast Namesakes

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