Cerda

surname · Latin script

Meaning: sow (female pig)

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

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

Cerda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 66th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 491(inferred from the name graph)
  • CLChile≈1 in 748
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.8K

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.

Chile (inferred from the name graph)

≈24,000 people, est.

Sources
348 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 491 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

sow (female pig)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cerda 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 Cerda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CL Chile#116≈24,000 est.≈1 in 748—Cerda143
US United States—17,7031 in 19K18KCerda348
NI Nicaragua#66≈13,000 est.≈1 in 491—Cerda35
EC Ecuador#6749,6331 in 1.8K9.6KCerda42
AR Argentina#5299,6041 in 4.7K9.6KCerda75
DO Dominican Republic#213≈4,100 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Cerda45

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); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Cerdá, Cerdà

  • Catalan surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra

    Also written Cerdà, Cerdá

  • Swahili surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Cerdá, Cerdà

54 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)

Cerda 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 Portuguese, bristle (stiff or coarse hair)

    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)

1850190019502000Pedro Aguirre Cerda, b. 1879Matilde Urrutia, b. 1912Marta Harnecker, b. 1937Nathalie Cerda, b. 1953Nacho Cerdà, b. 1969Rodrigo Cerda Norambuena, b. 1973Cristián Reynero, b. 1979Juan Carvajal, b. 1986Humberto Bustamante, b. 1990

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)

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Cerda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201018K#2,035
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202017K#2,082
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200013K#2,505
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20249.6K#449
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—9.6K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—9.6K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2022249—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2012230—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2013229—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2006229—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2007227—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2008222—

Reference works 4

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 Cerda mean, and where does it come from?
sow (female pig) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Cerda?
A machine transcription gives /serða/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Cerda?
In the etymology graph, Cerdo is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Cerda have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Cerda in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cerda.
How common is the name Cerda?
In the United States, the national register counted 17,703 people named Cerda in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Cerda compared with other names?
In Chile, Cerda is the 116th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Cerda” — the 116th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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