Penedo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: crag
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Penedo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 39K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 132K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 15K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
4,830 people
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
crag
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Penedo 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.
4,830 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Penedo 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 Galician, rocky outcrop; crag
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)
- José López Penedob. 1915ESGalician anarchist guerrilla fighter
- Rafael Ros i Penedob. 1961ESSpanish politician
- Margarida Bentes Penedob. 1966PTPortuguese architect and politician (born 1966)
- Gildásio Penedo Filhob. 1975BRBrazilian lawyer and politician, former state deputy of Bahia
- Ciro Díazb. 1978CUnot in their usual nameCuban musician
- Jaime Penedob. 1981PAPanamanian footballer
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.8K | #2,298 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #3,525 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #3,525 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 344 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 224 | — |
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
- What does the name Penedo mean, and where does it come from?
- crag Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Penedo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Penedo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled penedo.
- How common is the name Penedo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,830 people named Penedo, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/penedoThe 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, “Penedo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.