Cuña
surname · Latin script
Meaning: wedge
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cuña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 884(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 21as Khan
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 34as Khan
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 Cuña 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #54 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 538 (measured from records)
- 1 in 884 (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000,000 named Khan, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Khan in IN India, PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia and 4 more.
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)
wedge
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cuña 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #1 | ≈11,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 21 | listed | Khan | 245 |
| BD Bangladesh | #7 | ≈4,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 34 | listed | Khan | 220 |
| IN India | #14 | 1,485,348as Khan | 1 in 893 | 1.5M | Khan | 333 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #1 | ≈510,000 est. | ≈1 in 67 | — | Khan | 178 |
| AF Afghanistan | #16 | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 84 | — | Khan | 66 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #1 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 49 | — | Khan | 207 |
| BH Bahrain | #1 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 59 | — | Khan | 78 |
| UY Uruguay | #168 | 3,830 | 1 in 884 | 3.8K | Cuña | 24 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cuña mean, and where does it come from?
- wedge Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cuña?
- In the etymology graph, Cunha, Cuñado and Cuño are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Cuña have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 million people named Khan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cuña most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cuña is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 884 people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cuña?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 3,830 people named Cuña, about 1 in 884 residents.
- How common is Cuña compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Cuña is the most common surname of 51,489 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/cu%C3%B1aThe 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, “Cuña” — the most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.