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Arai

Arai is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese荒井

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Arai comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 新井 (Arai).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Arai through the years

Babies since 1880
86
5 boys · 81 girls
Most popular year
2025
13 babies
2025
13
#11,036 for girls · #12,171 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
+100%
Rising fast
Boys Girls
02462025Highest share 2024Boys 2.9Girls 5.0
Arai in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2001–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,036 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. It also appeared in 5 birth records for boys in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 158 as a first name in 2020; 867 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Arai’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Arai as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 新井. In English usage, Arai as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 新井. In Japanese usage, Arai as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 荒井.

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Arai荒井新井

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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