Llerena

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from Llerena in Caceres province

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

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

Llerena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 2.4K
  • COColombia≈1 in 22K

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈13,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
229 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LlerenaLatin(measured from records)
ЛлеренаCyrillic(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)

habitational name from Llerena in Caceres province.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Llerena 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 Llerena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#358≈13,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Llerena86
EC Ecuador#37710,0581 in 1.7K10KLlerena59
CO Colombia—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 22K2Llerena58
US United States—1,8851 in 176K1.9KLlerena229
ES Spain—1,6691 in 30K1.7KLlerena90
UY Uruguay—2651 in 13K265Llerena16

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: INEC — civil registry names; 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); 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).

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

Llerena is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Llērēna

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Llereña

39 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Juan Llerena, b. 1825Eduardo León y Llerena, b. 1839General Juan Francisco Morales, b. 1848Mario Llerena, b. 1913Hernán Llerena, b. 1928Ranil, b. 1935Maria Llerena, b. 1942Lili Rentería, b. 1961Jesús Pérez, b. 1971Hugo Muñoz, b. 1973

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 Llerena,Dear Llerena, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Llerena,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Llerena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202410K#426
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—10K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#14,916
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.9K#15,527
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.7K#2,822
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.7K#2,822
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#18,836
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—265—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995186—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1994172—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2011167—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009163—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Llerena mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from Llerena in Caceres province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Llerena?
A machine transcription gives /ʎeɾena/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Llerena have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Llerena in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled llerena.
Where is Llerena most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Llerena is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Llerena?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 10,058 people named Llerena in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
How common is Llerena compared with other names?
In Peru, Llerena is the 358th most common surname of 173,371 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, “Llerena” — the 358th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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