Centeno

14,512 people in the United States were counted with the surname Centeno in the 2020 census, making it the 2,433rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,600.

By the numbers

People: 14,512
Rank: 2,433rd
How common: 1 in 20,600
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Centeno, an occupational surname for someone who grew or worked with rye, from Latin centenum, based on a notion that one stalk of rye would produce one-hundred grains.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Centeno described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 88.9%
White, not Hispanic 5.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Centeno

Walter Centeno (born 1974)Costa Rican footballer
Mário Centeno (born 1966)Portuguese economist and politician

People named Centeno with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Centeno

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.