Avena
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Latin: from the oat field
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/abena/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Avena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 78K
- USUnited States1 in 372K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Latin: from the oat field
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Avena 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Avena | 34 |
| US United States | 895 | 1 in 372K | 1.2K | Avena | 129 |
| IT Italy | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 84K | listed | Avena | 42 |
| BR Brazil | 606 | 1 in 349K | 606 | Avena | 56 |
| AR Argentina | 585 | 1 in 78K | 585 | Avena | 41 |
| CO Colombia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 202K | 1 | Avena | 22 |
| CU Cuba | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Avena | 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; the co-datosgov-candidates 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Avena 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 Italian, oats
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Auzas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Adolfo Avenab. 1860ITItalian engineer and architect (1860–1937)
- Antonio Avenab. 1882ITItalian historian
- Gino Avenab. 1898ITItalian engineer and architect (1898-1980)
- Osvaldo Avenab. 1921ARArgentine guitarist
- Gerbaldo Avenab. 1933Brazilian politician (1933-2021)
- Calixto Avenab. 1943COColombian association football player
- Emmanuel Avenab. 1953FRFrench actor
- Christophe Avenab. 1966FRFrench politician
- Luca Avenab. 1981ITItalian mathematician
- Alexandra Avenab. 1985MXMexican fencer
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 895 | #27,059 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 606 | #14,336 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 585 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Avena mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin: from the oat field Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Avena?
- A machine transcription gives /abena/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Avena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Avena in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled avena.
- How common is the name Avena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 895 people named Avena in 2010, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Avena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/avenaThe 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, “Avena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.