Lucena

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Lucena (a municipality of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lucena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Réunion it is the 84th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 6.1K
  • ARArgentina1 in 6.7K

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈23,000 people, est.

Sources
204 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Réunion, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Lucena (a municipality of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lucena 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 Lucena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#216≈23,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Lucena62
BR Brazil#223≈23,000 est.≈1 in 9.4K904Lucena186
PH Philippines#709≈10,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Lucena61
ES Spain#5828,2451 in 6.1K8.2KLucena122
AR Argentina#7326,8071 in 6.7K6.8KLucena72
RE Réunion#84≈640 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Lucena1

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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

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

Lucena is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Spain, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Luceña

  • Lao surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written ลูเซนา, Luceña, ลูเซน่า

  • Hindi surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Luxembourg

    Also written Luceña

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Philippines, United States, Italy

    Also written Luceña

50 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)

Lucena 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 Spanish, habitational name from Lucena in Andalusia.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

190019201940196019802000Elena Lucena, b. 1914Augusto Lucena, b. 1916Julio Lucena, b. 1924Fábio Pereira de Lucena Bittencourt, b. 1940Wendell Lucena Ramalho, b. 1947Jacquin Strouss Lucena, b. 1953Matt Lucena, b. 1969Jerry Lucena, b. 1980Manuel Lucena, b. 1982Roniel Campos, b. 1993

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Lucena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—110K#258
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—8.2K#676
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8.2K#676
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—6.8K—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Lucena mean, and where does it come from?
Lucena (a municipality of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Lucena have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Lucena in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucena.
How common is the name Lucena?
In Spain, the national register counted 8,245 people named Lucena, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
How common is Lucena compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Lucena is the 216th most common surname of 83,461 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, “Lucena” — the 216th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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