Peñuela
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Peñuela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 6.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 19K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 29K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 people, est.
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 Penuela in PH Philippines, ID Indonesia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peñuela 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 | #598 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 6 | Peñuela | 72 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Penuela | 40 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Peñuela | 20 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,496 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Peñuela | 54 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Penuela | 5 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 128K | 1 | Peñuela | 6 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
- Antonio Abellán Peñuelab. 1822ESSpanish politician (1822-1903)
- Gertrudis Peñuela Eslavab. 1904COColombian writer (1904-2004)
- Francisco Peñuelab. 2001VEVenezuelan cyclist
- Natalia Ocampo-PeñuelaCOColombian ornithologist
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 8 sources across 6 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
- In which country does Peñuela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Peñuela in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peñuela.
- How common is the name Peñuela?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,496 people named Peñuela, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Peñuela compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Peñuela is the 598th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Peñuela?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pe%C3%B1uelaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Peñuela” — the 598th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.