Apenas
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: only, just
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Apenas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1M(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 11M
- USUnited States≈1 in 232M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
only, just
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Apenas is read(measured from records)
Apenas is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English42%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Apenas in English.
- Portuguese36%
only, just
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
only; just; merely (no more than)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish17%
barely, scarcely
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Apenas 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | Apenas | 6 |
| BR Brazil | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 11M | Apenas | 13 |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 232M | Apenas | 4 |
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.
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)
Apenas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lad, scarcely, hardly
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Apenas mean, and where does it come from?
- only, just Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Apenas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 105 people named Apenas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled apenas.
- How common is the name Apenas?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people in the Philippines have Apenas as their first surname, about 1 in 1.0 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/apenasThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Apenas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.