Cespedes

surname · Latin script

Meaning: lived on a patch of peat soil, from the pi

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/θespeðes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cespedes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 72nd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 261(measured from records)
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 542
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 654

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.

Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)

≈21,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
279 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 261 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CespedesLatin(measured from records)
СеспедесCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Céspedes in BO Bolivia.

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)

lived on a patch of peat soil, from the pi. of Sp. cesped peat, turf (L caespes, gen. caespitis). In some cases it may originally have been a metonymic occupational name for someone who cut and sold turf.

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cespedes 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 Cespedes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BO Bolivia#229≈21,000 est.≈1 in 542—Céspedes62
PE Peru#211≈21,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Cespedes88
CR Costa Rica#7219,5031 in 26120KCespedes94
AR Argentina#40315,6421 in 2.9K16KCespedes79
CO Colombia#392≈12,000 est.≈1 in 4.2K13Cespedes118
PY Paraguay#129≈11,000 est.≈1 in 654—Cespedes47
DO Dominican Republic#123≈8,800 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Cespedes47

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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cespedes is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina

    Also written Céspedes

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Cêspedes, Cèspedes, Céspedes

  • Swedish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Denmark, Peru

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Céspedes

  • Bulgarian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Peru, United States, Bolivia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Céspedes, Čespedes

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Poland, Peru

    Also written Céspedes

39 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)

1970198019902000Vincent Cespedes, b. 1973Boris Cespedes, b. 1995Emilio Cespedes, b. 1996

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)

FormalEstimado/a Cespedes,Dear Cespedes, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Cespedes,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Cespedes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—20K#105
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—16K—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—13#103
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———

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

Where does the name Cespedes come from?
lived on a patch of peat soil, from the pi. of Sp. cesped peat, turf (L caespes, gen. caespitis). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
How do you pronounce Cespedes?
A machine transcription gives /θespeðes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Cespedes mean?
Recorded meaning: lived on a patch of peat soil, from the pi.
In which country does Cespedes have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Cespedes in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled céspedes.
Where is Cespedes most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cespedes is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 261 people — even though Bolivia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cespedes?
In Costa Rica, the national register counted 19,503 people named Cespedes, about 1 in 261 residents.
How common is Cespedes compared with other names?
In Bolivia, Cespedes is the 229th most common surname of 29,432 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, “Cespedes” — the 229th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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