Aruban
noun, adjective
Aruban is a noun meaning “A person from Aruba or of Aruban descent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-U-B-A-N, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Aruban is Arubans.
What does Aruban mean?
noun
- 1
A person from Aruba or of Aruban descent.
adjective
- 1
Of, from, or pertaining to Aruba, the Aruban people or the Aruban language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Aruban
- Arubans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Aruban?
Aruban appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Aruban in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | Arubéen, Arubéenne, Arubain, Arubaine, Arubais, Arubaise |
| Portuguese | arubano |
| Spanish | arubano |
| German | von Aruba |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Aruban come from?
From Aruba + -an.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).