Castañeda
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kastaɲeda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Castañeda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From castañeda (“chestnut grove”).
- COColombia≈1 in 696(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 743
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 992
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #823 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 696 (inferred from the name graph)
71,368 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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 Castaneda in US United States, SV El Salvador.
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)
From castañeda (“chestnut grove”).
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Castañeda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #569 | 71,368 | 1 in 4.7K | 71K | Castaneda | 426 |
| CO Colombia | #95 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 696 | 49 | Castañeda | 127 |
| PE Peru | #141 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Castañeda | 88 |
| GT Guatemala | #23 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 992 | — | Castañeda | 50 |
| VE Venezuela | #332 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Castañeda | 33 |
| EC Ecuador | #393 | 12,093 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Castañeda | 35 |
| SV El Salvador | #129 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 743 | — | Castaneda | 59 |
71,368 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
- Justiniano Borgoñob. 1836PEnot in their usual namePresident of Peru (1836-1921)
- Jorge Ubicob. 1878GTnot in their usual namePresident of Guatemala (1878-1946)
- Carlos Castanedab. 1925USPeruvian-American author (1925-1998)
- Luis Castañeda Lossiob. 1945PEPeruvian lawyer and politician
- Raúl Riverob. 1945CUnot in their usual nameCuban poet, writer and dissident (1945–2021)
- Germán Villab. 1973MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Yarelys Barriosb. 1983CUnot in their usual nameCuban discus thrower
- David Castanedab. 1989USAmerican actor
- Mariand Castrejónb. 1993MXnot in their usual nameMexican YouTuber
- Frank Castañedab. 1994COColombian 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)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Castañeda mean, and where does it come from?
- From castañeda (“chestnut grove”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Castañeda?
- A machine transcription gives /kastaɲeda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Castañeda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 71 thousand people named Castañeda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled castaneda.
- How common is the name Castañeda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 71,368 people named Castañeda in 2010, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Castañeda compared with other names?
- In the United States, Castañeda is the 569th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/casta%C3%B1edaThe 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, “Castañeda” — the 569th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.