The Arche Family Name

Whether you spell it Arche or Arce, the story begins in the same place. Name scholars give the meaning as “Maple”.

• Related forms: Arceo and Arse.
• Arche adds “h” to Arce, a small change that crept in as the name was written down.
• In Spain, the INE population register lists 278 people with Arche as their first surname and 235 as their second. French civil records give 158 births under the name Arche from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1981–1990.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Arce and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Arche surname pack.