Centola
surname · Latin script
Meaning: da localidade Centola, ligado a centula '100 acres'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/θentola/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Centola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 308K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 763K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 308K (inferred from the name graph)
436 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)da localidade Centola, ligado a centula '100 acres'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Centola 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 436 | 1 in 763K | 436 | Centola | 55 |
| BR Brazil | 43 | 1 in 4.9M | 43 | Centola | 38 |
| BE Belgium | 38 | 1 in 308K | 38 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 33 | 1 in 1.4M | 33 | Centola | 25 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | Centola | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
436 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Centola 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 Galician, European spider crab (Maja squinado)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Giuseppe Centolab. 1848Italian politician (1848-1904)
- Damon Centolab. 1973USresearcher in network science and related at the University of Pennsylvania
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 436 | #48,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 435 | #46,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 423 | #52,889 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 43 | #116,436 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 38 | #31,670 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 33 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Centola mean, and where does it come from?
- da localidade Centola, ligado a centula '100 acres' Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Centola?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /θentola/; in Italian /t͡ʃentola/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Centola have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 436 people named Centola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled centola.
- Where is Centola most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Centola is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 308 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Centola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 436 people named Centola in 2010, about 1 in 763 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/centolaThe 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, “Centola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.