Ordeñana

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024

/oɾðeɲana/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Ordeñana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country.

  • NINicaragua≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 13K
  • ECEcuador≈1 in 34K

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.

Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)

≈580 people, est.

Record sources
71 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, 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 Ordenana in US United States.

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.

How to pronounce Ordeñana

  • Spanish:/oɾðeɲana/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Ordeñana is found

(measured from records)

Ordeñana 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 Ordeñana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NI Nicaragua#491≈580 est.≈1 in 12K—Ordeñana8
EC Ecuador—≈540 est.≈1 in 34K4Ordeñana15
CR Costa Rica#4333951 in 13K395Ordeñana8
ES Spain—2151 in 233K215Ordeñana26
US United States—2051 in 1.6M205Ordenana71
PA Panama—≈14 est.≈1 in 325K—Ordeñana4

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; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Ordeñana is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ordenana, Ordenaña

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Ordenana

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ordenana

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ordenana

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Ordenana

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ordenana

5 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)
1920194019601980Héctor Rodríguez, b. 1920Argala, b. 1949Roberto Wong, b. 1979
  • Héctor Rodríguezb. 1920CUnot in their usual nameCuban baseball player (1920–2003)
  • Argalab. 1949ESnot in their usual namehigh-ranking ETA militant
  • Roberto Wongb. 1979CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer

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 Ordeñana,Dear Ordeñana, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Ordeñana,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Ordeñana?
In Spanish /oɾðeɲana/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Ordeñana?
Mondonomo estimates about 580 people named Ordeñana in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ordeñana. After it come Ecuador, Costa Rica, Spain and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Ordeñana?
In Costa Rica, the national register counted 395 people named Ordeñana, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
How common is Ordeñana compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Ordeñana is the 491st most common surname of 5,756 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, “Ordeñana” — the 491st most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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