Pena

At the 2020 census, 135,370 Americans bore the surname Pena — 209th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,208.

By the numbers

People: 135,370
Rank: 209th
How common: 1 in 2,208
Per 100,000: 45.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.0%
White, not Hispanic 5.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Pena

Enrique Peña Nieto (born 1966)64th President of Mexico
Afonso Pena (1847–1909)6th president of Brazil
Santiago Peña Palacios (born 1978)President of Paraguay since 2023
Iñaki Peña (born 1999)Spanish association football player
Roque Sáenz Peña (1851–1914)Argentine politician, president of Argentina
Iván de la Peña (born 1976)Spanish footballer
Elizabeth Peña (1959–2014)American actress
Candela Peña (born 1973)Spanish actress

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

Surnames like Pena

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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.