Bárcena

surname · Latin script

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

Bárcena is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain. Recorded meaning: places, for example in the provinces of Biscay, Burgos, Leon, Oviedo, Palencia, and Santander, so called from a pre-Roman topographical element *bargina, descriptive of an area of cultivated land.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 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)

places, for example in the provinces of Biscay, Burgos, Leon, Oviedo, Palencia, and Santander, so called from a pre-Roman topographical element *bargina, descriptive of an area of cultivated land. Vars.: Barcenas; Barcina (a place in Burgos). Dim.: Barcenilla (places in Burgos, Palencia, and Santander).

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Bárcena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
ES Spain—3K—
AR Argentina—1.8K—
US United States—1.1K—
UY Uruguay—205—
BR Brazil—130—

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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Bárcena is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Mexico, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese

    Also written Barcena

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Also written Barcena

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Spain, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Barcena

21 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Alonzo de Barcena, b. 1530Manuel Bárcena, b. 1803José de Astiz, b. 1859Catalina Bárcena, b. 1888Martha Bárcena, b. 1957Josu de Miguel Bárcena, b. 1975Polimnia Romana Sierra Bárcena, b. 1976Juan Rego, b. 1977Juan Gómez Bárcena, b. 1984Mariu Bárcena, b. 1993

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Bárcena mean, and where does it come from?
places, for example in the provinces of Biscay, Burgos, Leon, Oviedo, Palencia, and Santander, so called from a pre-Roman topographical element *bargina, descriptive of an area of cultivated land. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
In which country does Bárcena have the most bearers?
Bárcena is most frequently recorded in Spain.

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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, “Bárcena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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