Penia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lives in the stones; of solid character
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pəniə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Penia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 178K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 1.4M
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.5M
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)
129 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lives in the stones; of solid character
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Penia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 129 | 1 in 10M | 129 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 114 | 1 in 1.9M | 114 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Penia | 13 |
| US United States | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | listed | Penia | 52 |
| PL Poland | 28 | 1 in 1.4M | 15 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | 1 | — | — |
129 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 129 | #24,014 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 114 | #57,408 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #107,438 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #116,636 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #4,755 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #43,907 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Penia mean, and where does it come from?
- lives in the stones; of solid character Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Penia?
- A machine transcription gives /pəniə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Penia have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 129 people named Penia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Penia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Penia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 178 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Penia?
- In India, the national register counted 129 people named Penia, about 1 in 10 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peniaThe 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, “Penia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.