Pëña
surname · Latin script
Pëña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Pentti. Pëña is also written Пены in Cyrillic, เพนา in Thai and ფენა in Georgian.
- UYUruguay1 in 187(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 220
- COColombia≈1 in 270
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pëña itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- #275 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 465 (measured from records)
- 1 in 187 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pëña in other scripts: Cyrillic, Thai and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Peña in VE Venezuela, MX Mexico, CO Colombia and 3 more and Pena 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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Diminutive of Pentti.
Cited for this meaning 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pëña is found
(measured from records)Pëña 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #49 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 274 | 91 | Peña | 139 |
| US United States | #217 | 130,776 | 1 in 2.5K | 135K | Pena | 465 |
| VE Venezuela | #32 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 219 | 972 | Peña | 83 |
| ES Spain | #59 | 74,072 | 1 in 675 | 74K | Peña | 185 |
| MX Mexico | #173 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 2.9K | Peña | 198 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #39 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 333 | — | Peña | 100 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 18,104 | 1 in 187 | 18K | — | 62 |
| SV El Salvador | #65 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 363 | — | Peña | 38 |
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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pëña mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive of Pentti. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pëña?
- Mondonomo estimates about 193 thousand people named Pëña in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peña. After it come United States, Venezuela, Spain and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pëña most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pëña is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 187 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pëña?
- In the United States, the national register counted 130,776 people named Pëña in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Pëña compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Pëña is the 49th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Pëña” — ranked 33rd in Colombia (the co-datosgov-candidates register). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.