Duenas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: employed in the quarters of the female members of a noble family, from Sp
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdweɪnjəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duenas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.8K
- COColombia≈1 in 5.4K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
13,736 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dueñas in PE Peru, SV El Salvador, CO Colombia and 2 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)
employed in the quarters of the female members of a noble family, from Sp. duenas ladies (a cogn. of Dame). In a few cases it may have been originally a habitation name, from places in Palencia and Teruel called (Las) Duenas, per¬ haps of folkloric origin.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duenas 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 | — | 13,736 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Duenas | 325 |
| CO Colombia | #556 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 10 | Dueñas | 82 |
| PE Peru | #426 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Dueñas | 53 |
| ES Spain | #711 | 8,025 | 1 in 6.2K | 8K | Dueñas | 98 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Duenas | 7 |
| SV El Salvador | #278 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Dueñas | 20 |
| HN Honduras | #341 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Dueñas | 11 |
13,736 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Ashley Duenasb. 1981UZice dancer
- Crispin Duenasb. 1986CACanadian archer
- DijonUSnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Santiago DuenasPHactor
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 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,627 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,297 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| 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
- Where does the name Duenas come from?
- employed in the quarters of the female members of a noble family, from Sp. duenas ladies (a cogn. of Dame). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Duenas?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdweɪnjəs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Duenas mean?
- Recorded meaning: employed in the quarters of the female members of a noble family, from Sp.
- In which country does Duenas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Duenas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duenas.
- How common is the name Duenas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,736 people named Duenas in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Duenas compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Duenas is the 278th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/duenasThe 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, “Duenas” — the 278th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.