Atencio
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/atenθjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Atencio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 75K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.8K
- ARArgentina1 in 6.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
7,298 people
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atencio 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 7,298 | 1 in 6.2K | 7.3K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 4,456 | 1 in 75K | 4.5K | Atencio | 280 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1,826 | 1 in 2.8K | 1.8K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 431 | 1 in 116K | 431 | Atencio | 16 |
| UY Uruguay | 322 | 1 in 11K | 322 | — | — |
7,298 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mario Atenciob. 1902ARArgentinian politician
- Francis Xavier Atenciob. 1919USAmerican animator (1919-2017)
- Vicente Atencio Cortezb. 1929CLChilean politician
- Caridad Atenciob. 1963CUCuban poet and essayist
- Peter Atenciob. 1983USAmerican television and film director
- Mariana Atenciob. 1984VEVenezuelan-American journalist
- Osmariel Villalobosb. 1988VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan TV show host, model and Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder
- Gerardo Atenciob. 1996ARArgentinian cyclist
- Josh Atenciob. 2002USAmerican soccer player
- Anibal CotrinaPEnot in their usual namePeruvian engineer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 7.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.5K | #7,224 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,794 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.8K | #371 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 431 | #8,988 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 431 | #8,981 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 322 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Atencio?
- A machine transcription gives /atenθjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Atencio have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Atencio, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Atencio most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Atencio is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Atencio?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 7,298 people named Atencio, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atencioThe 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, “Atencio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.