Ceña
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/seɲa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Ceña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 10K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 12K
- BRBrazil1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
8,777 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cena in US United States, CH Switzerland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ceña is found
(measured from records)Ceña 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 8,777 | 1 in 24K | 8.8K | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 4,402 | 1 in 10K | 4.4K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 773 | 1 in 430K | 855 | Cena | 215 |
| ES Spain | 409 | 1 in 122K | 409 | Ceña | 11 |
| PL Poland | 394 | 1 in 97K | 203 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 285 | 1 in 12K | 285 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 94 | 1 in 89K | 94 | Cena | 4 |
8,777 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Laurentino Ceña Corob. 1955ESSpanish military, Civil Guard's lieutenant general
- Ángel Ceñab. 1967ESSpanish politician
- Gabriela Ceñab. 1987ARArgentinian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ceña?
- In Spanish /seɲa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ceña?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Ceña, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Argentina, United States, Spain and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ceña most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ceña is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ceña?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,777 people named Ceña, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ceña?
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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%B1aThe 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, “Ceña”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.