Urena
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Urena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Ureña, itself from Basque.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 240(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.1K
- PAPanama≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 310 (measured from records)
- 1 in 240 (inferred from the name graph)
21,272 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ureña in CR Costa Rica, DO Dominican Republic, ES Spain 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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Ureña, itself from Basque.
Sources 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urena 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #68 | 21,272 | 1 in 240 | 21K | Ureña | 62 |
| US United States | — | 11,066 | 1 in 30K | 12K | Urena | 310 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #116 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ureña | 60 |
| ES Spain | #781 | 6,965 | 1 in 7.2K | 7K | Ureña | 87 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Urena | 5 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Ureña | 22 |
| PA Panama | #56 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 21 | Ureña | 31 |
21,272 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Estamy Urenab. 1999DODominican baseball 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,970 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.1K | #4,052 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 34 | #57,854 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 34 | #57,670 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Urena mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Ureña, itself from Basque. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Urena have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Urena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ureña.
- Where is Urena most common?
- Urena is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 240 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Urena?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 21,272 people named Urena, about 1 in 240 residents.
- How common is Urena compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Urena is the 68th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urenaThe 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, “Urena” — the 68th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.