Peñas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/peɲas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peñas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 12K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 59K
- ARArgentina1 in 72K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
4,164 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Penas in AR Argentina, PE Peru, BR Brazil 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peñas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #806 | 4,164 | 1 in 12K | 4.2K | Peñas | 107 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Peñas | 12 |
| AR Argentina | — | 635 | 1 in 72K | 635 | Penas | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 571 | 1 in 371K | 571 | Penas | 43 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Penas | 35 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Penas | 42 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 113 | 1 in 30K | 113 | Penas | 13 |
4,164 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Peñas 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 Asturian, second-person singular present subjunctive of peñar
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)
- Anselm Peñasb. 1943ESSpanish malacologist
- Javier Peñas Navarrob. 1956ESSpanish teacher, writer and poet
- Paco Martín Peñasb. 1956ESSpanish cultural manager
- Mercedes Peñas Domingob. 1968ESSpanish-Costa Rican politician scientist
- Santiago Lago Peñasb. 1971ESSpanish economist
- Óscar Peñasb. 1974ESSpanish judoka
- Esther Peñas Domingob. 1975ESSpanish writer
- Borja Pérezb. 1982ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Adriana González Peñasb. 1986ESSpanish tennis player
- Ana Peñasb. 1992ESbadminton player
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.2K | #1,261 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.2K | #1,261 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 635 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Peñas?
- A machine transcription gives /peɲas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Peñas have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Peñas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peñas.
- Where is Peñas most common?
- Peñas is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Peñas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,164 people named Peñas, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Peñas compared with other names?
- In Spain, Peñas is the 806th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Peñas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pe%C3%B1asThe 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, “Peñas” — the 806th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.