Cencia

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 155K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 500K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 784K

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈210 people, est.

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 155K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, 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)

Cencia 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 Cencia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru≈210 est.≈1 in 155K—Cencia31
PH Philippines≈140 est.≈1 in 784K—Cencia10
IT Italy≈130 est.≈1 in 500KlistedCencia3
US United States≈36 est.≈1 in 9.3MlistedCencia9
ES Spain≈10 est.≈1 in 5M—Cencia3
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—1

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Cencia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Italy, Peru

    Also written Cenciae, Cenciä

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Chencha

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Cenciä

20 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)

Cencia 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 Aragonese, science

    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)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Cencia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Cencia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 206 people named Cencia in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cencia.
How common is the name Cencia?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 5 people named Cencia in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 million 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, “Cencia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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