Cento

loc · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: percent (por c.)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cento is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Italy.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

percent (por c.)

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

How Cento is read(measured from records)

Cento is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Portuguese19%

    percent (por c.)

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

    one hundred (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Italian17%

    hundred, one hundred

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    do lat. centum 'cem'; também pode vir de Vincenzo

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cento counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Cento is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—listedCento20
US United States—300—119
BR Brazil—219——
AR Argentina—97——
BE Belgium—8—2

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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cento is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Mexico

    Languages: Italian, Spanish

    Also written Çento

  • French name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Çento

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Çento

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Ченто, Chento, Çento

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cento is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, A garment of several pieces sewed together; a patchwork

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Fernando Cento, b. 1883Alberto Cento, b. 1920Alfredo Cento, b. 1959Paolo Cento, b. 1962Stefania Cento, b. 1964

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Cento
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020300#70,358
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000279#66,274
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010261#74,141
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—219#34,145
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—97—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20088#79,336
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cento mean, and where does it come from?
percent (por c.) Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
In which country does Cento have the most bearers?
Cento is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled cento.

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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, “Cento”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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