Cepeda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lived on a patch of land that had been cleared of trees, leaving only stumps behind, from Sp
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/θepeða/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cepeda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 82nd most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 794(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 968
- ARArgentina1 in 3K
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 Cepeda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 794 (inferred from the name graph)
29,252 named Zepeda, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lived on a patch of land that had been cleared of trees, leaving only stumps behind, from Sp. cepeda, a collective of cepo base of a tree trunk (from L cippus pillar). Cercott see Circuit
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cepeda 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 | — | 29,252as Zepeda | 1 in 11K | 29K | Cepeda | 313 |
| EC Ecuador | #167 | 17,456 | 1 in 968 | 17K | Cepeda | 55 |
| AR Argentina | #362 | 15,194 | 1 in 3K | 15K | Cepeda | 86 |
| CO Colombia | #389 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 13 | Cepeda | 129 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #82 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 794 | — | Cepeda | 58 |
| CL Chile | #384 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Cepeda | 99 |
29,252 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling zepeda. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
- Orlando Cepedab. 1937USPuerto Rican baseball player (1937–2024)
- Laura Cepedab. 1953MXSpanish actress
- Iván Cepeda Castrob. 1962COColombian politician (born 1962)
- Cláudia Cepedab. 1967BRBrazilian actress
- Lorna Cepedab. 1970COColombian actress
- Marcelo Vegab. 1971CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Angie Cepedab. 1974COColombian actress
- Frederich Cepedab. 1980CUbaseball player
- Cepedab. 1989ESSpanish singer and songwriter
- Jonathan Caicedob. 1993ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian cyclist
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 30 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Cepeda come from?
- lived on a patch of land that had been cleared of trees, leaving only stumps behind, from Sp. cepeda, a collective of cepo base of a tree trunk (from L cippus pillar). Cercott see Circuit Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Cepeda?
- A machine transcription gives /θepeða/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Cepeda mean?
- Recorded meaning: lived on a patch of land that had been cleared of trees, leaving only stumps behind, from Sp.
- In which country does Cepeda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Zepeda, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Cepeda?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 17,456 people named Cepeda in 2024, about 1 in 968 residents.
- How common is Cepeda compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Cepeda is the 82nd most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cepedaThe 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, “Cepeda” — the 82nd most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.