Ceferino
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Greek Zephyros/Latin zephyrus, ‘west wind’; by popular etymology ‘one who bears life’ (Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Spain (INE): listed as male
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Uruguay (INE Uruguay): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 2024
/se.feˈɾi.no/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Ceferino is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 3.5K
- PAPanama≈1 in 4.5K
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 Ceferino 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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ceferino
- Spanish:/se.feˈɾi.no/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Greek Zephyros/Latin zephyrus, ‘west wind’; by popular etymology ‘one who bears life’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ceferino 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 | #343 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 241 | Ceferino | 68 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Ceferino | 38 |
| PE Peru | #787 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Ceferino | 39 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 27 | Ceferino | 56 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,533 | 1 in 20K | 2.8K | Ceferino | 87 |
| PY Paraguay | #358 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Ceferino | 17 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 18 | — | 24 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres 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)- Ceferino Giménez Mallab. 1861ESSpanish Romani catechist (1861-1936)
- Ceferino Namuncuráb. 1886ARbeatified Argentine (1886-1905)
- Ceferino Denisb. 1978ARArgentine footballer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Ceferino?
- In the etymology graph, Zeferino and Zephyrinus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Ceferino mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Zephyros/Latin zephyrus, ‘west wind’; by popular etymology ‘one who bears life’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Ceferino?
- In Spanish /se.feˈɾi.no/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Ceferino a male or female name?
- Ceferino is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Spain (INE): listed as male; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Uruguay (INE Uruguay): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Ceferino?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Ceferino in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ceferino. After it come Philippines, Peru, Mexico and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ceferino?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,533 people named Ceferino, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Ceferino compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Ceferino is the 343rd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ceferinoThe 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, “Ceferino” — ranked 1135th in Argentina (RENAPER). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.