Cienfuegos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cienfuegos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Recorded meaning: port, Cuba.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 19K
- ESSpain1 in 50K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
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:
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)
port, Cuba
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cienfuegos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Cienfuegos | 45 |
| US United States | — | 1,445 | 1 in 230K | 1.5K | Cienfuegos | 174 |
| ES Spain | — | 996 | 1 in 50K | 996 | Cienfuegos | 86 |
| SV El Salvador | #446 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Cienfuegos | 21 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Cienfuegos | 37 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Cienfuegos | 44 |
| NI Nicaragua | #729 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Cienfuegos | 14 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luisa de Medranob. 1484ESnot in their usual nameSpanish scholar
- Juan Álvaro Cienfuegos Villazónb. 1657ESSpanish catholic cardinal and archbishop (1657–1739)
- Beatriz Cienfuegosb. 1714ESSpanish newspaperwoman, editor
- Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos y Jovellanosb. 1766ESSpanish cardinal
- Francisco Astaburuaga Cienfuegosb. 1817CLChilean politician
- Osmany Cienfuegos Gorriaránb. 1931CUCuban politician, architect
- Camilo Cienfuegosb. 1932CUCuban revolutionary fighter and guerilla (1932–1959)
- Pedro de Silva Cienfuegos-Jovellanosb. 1945ESSpanish politician
- Mauricio Cienfuegosb. 1968SVSalvadoran footballer
- Javier Cienfuegosb. 1990ESSpanish hammer thrower
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 14 sources across 9 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 Cienfuegos mean, and where does it come from?
- port, Cuba Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Cienfuegos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Cienfuegos in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cienfuegos.
- How common is the name Cienfuegos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,445 people named Cienfuegos in 2010, about 1 in 230 thousand residents.
- How common is Cienfuegos compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Cienfuegos is the 446th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cienfuegosThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cienfuegos” — the 446th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.