Ceñ
surname · Latin script
Ceñ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hakka 曾 (céng).
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 13K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cen in US United States, VE Venezuela, CR Costa Rica and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Hakka 曾 (céng).
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ceñ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Cen | 16 |
| US United States | — | 1,239 | 1 in 268K | 1.8K | Cen | 79 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Cen | 22 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 1 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | #772 | 182 | 1 in 28K | 182 | Cen | 17 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Cen | 7 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Cen | 13 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ceñ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hakka 曾 (céng). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Ceñ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Ceñ in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cen.
- How common is the name Ceñ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,239 people named Ceñ in 2010, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
- How common is Ceñ compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Ceñ is the 772nd most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ce%C3%B1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ceñ” — the 772nd most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.