Cenas

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/θenas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cenas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 67K
  • ARArgentina1 in 437K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,900 people, est.

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, 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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cenas 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.

Where Cenas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈2,900 est.≈1 in 38K—Cenas32
PE Peru≈480 est.≈1 in 67K—Cenas28
AR Argentina1041 in 437K104Cenas22
BR Brazil641 in 3.3M64Cenas16
PT Portugal≈21 est.≈1 in 491K—Cenas7
UY Uruguay≈5 est.≈1 in 727K—Cenas3

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cenas is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Čėnas

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France

    Also written Cénas

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cenas 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 Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of cēnō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Dažkārt rakstos lietots Jelgavas novada apdzīvotās vietas "Cena" nosaukums

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Cenas,Dear Cenas, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Cenas,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Cenas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—104—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—64#87,998

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • 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

How do you pronounce Cenas?
A machine transcription gives /θenas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Cenas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Cenas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cenas.
How common is the name Cenas?
In Argentina, the national register counted 104 people named Cenas, about 1 in 437 thousand residents.

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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, “Cenas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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