Çîd

surname · Latin script

Çîd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 31st most common surname. Recorded meaning: of uncertain origin and meaning.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.2K
  • CLChile≈1 in 1.4K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

14,659 people

Record sources
237 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, 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 Cid in CL Chile, SV El Salvador, ES Spain and 2 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)

of uncertain origin and meaning. It occurs in L documents of the Middle Ages in the form Citi, and is apparently dis¬ tinct from the honorific title Cid (from Arabic sayyid lord) borne by Christian overlords with Moslem vassals.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Çîd 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.

Where Çîd is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#32114,6591 in 3.4K15KCid158
GT Guatemala#31≈15,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Cid72
CL Chile#158≈13,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K1Cid126
SV El Salvador#180≈5,900 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Cid36
HN Honduras#184≈4,500 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Cid32

14,659 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Çîd under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Çîd mean, and where does it come from?
of uncertain origin and meaning. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
In which country does Çîd have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Çîd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cid.
How common is the name Çîd?
In Spain, the national register counted 14,659 people named Çîd, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
How common is Çîd compared with other names?
In Spain, Çîd is the 321st most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Çîd” — the 321st most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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