Cadenas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cadenas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 9.3K
- ESSpain1 in 10K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cadenas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #447 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Cadenas | 57 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,777 | 1 in 10K | 4.8K | Cadenas | 136 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Cadenas | 29 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Cadenas | 49 |
| US United States | — | 1,870 | 1 in 178K | 1.9K | Cadenas | 187 |
| HN Honduras | #408 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Cadenas | 15 |
| SV El Salvador | #539 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Cadenas | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 333 | 1 in 10K | 333 | — | 31 |
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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cadenas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, In medieval times, a nef: a lockable casket containing a person's table requisites, cutlery, etc., often in the form of a ship.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, padlock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Utrera y Cadenasb. 1827ESSpanish painter
- Juventino Rosasb. 1868MXnot in their usual nameMexican composer, violinist and band leader (1868–1894)
- José Juan Cadenasb. 1872ESSpanish playwright, poet, librettist, theatre entrepreneur, and translator.
- María de la Purificación Fernández y Cadenasb. 1884ESSpanish noble woman
- Rafael Cadenasb. 1930VEVenezuelan writer
- Jesús Andrés Mancha Cadenasb. 1941ESSpanish politician
- Manolo Cadenasb. 1955ESSpanish handball coach
- Rutilio Escandón Cadenasb. 1958MXMexican politician and lawyer
- Emma Cadenasb. 1966PEPeruvian journalist, poet and singer-songwriter
- Solimar Cadenasb. 1984VEVenezuelan singer (1984-2009)
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 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.8K | #1,101 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.8K | #1,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,164 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 333 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Cadenas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Cadenas in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cadenas.
- How common is the name Cadenas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,777 people named Cadenas, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Cadenas compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Cadenas is the 447th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cadenasThe 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, “Cadenas” — the 447th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.