Duenas

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Duenas is a surname, most frequently recorded in Peru. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: employed in the quarters of the female members of a noble family, from Sp.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 2.7K◐
  • PEPeru1 in 4.1K
  • COColombia1 in 5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈23K ●

across 6 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
295 ●

199K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 6.2K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

DuenasLatin · Spanish●115K records
ДуэньясCyrillic · Russian●16 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dueñas in PE Peru, SV El Salvador, CO Colombia and 7 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

employed in the quarters of the female members of a noble family, from Sp. duenas ladies (a cogn. of Dame). In a few cases it may have been originally a habitation name, from places in Palencia and Teruel called (Las) Duenas, per¬ haps of folkloric origin.

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Duenas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#47559,21544K rec.——Dueñas47
MX Mexico#89132,87919K rec.—300Duenas97
SV El Salvador#27214,51412K rec.——Dueñas20
US United States—13,73685K rec.1 in 24K14KDuenas295
CO Colombia#55411,3055.6K rec.—10Dueñas78
PH Philippines—10,2313.3K rec.——Duenas69
ES Spain#7878,0258.7K rec.1 in 6.2K8KDuenas91
EC Ecuador—5,770348 rec.—74Dueñas32
CA Canada—2,7572.8K rec.——Duenas39
CL Chile—2,710633 rec.——Dueñas40
HN Honduras#3252,3002.4K rec.——Dueñas11
GB United Kingdom—1,1141.3K rec.—listedDuenas46

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Languages●

  • Spanish89K50%
  • English63K35%
  • Catalan8K4%
  • 5.4K3%
  • French2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish88,69550%
English62,67035%
Catalan8,0254%
5,3943%
French2,0181%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Duenas is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan surname10K records spelled Duenas3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Dueñas

  • a separate surname5.6K records spelled Duenas5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Peru

    Also written Dueñas, Duenãs, Dueňas, Duen̄as

  • Polish surname164 records spelled Duenas4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Dueñas, Düêñâs, Dueńas

  • Finnish surname90 records spelled Duenas4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Dueñas

  • a separate surname73 records spelled Duenas2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru

    Also written Dueñas

  • Croatian surname72 records spelled Duenas13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian

    Also written Dueñas, Дуенас

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02040601900192019401960198049 · 1961

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Duenas in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18912
19012
19115
192110
19315
194113
195113
196149
197120
198121
199125

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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●

Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Duenas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202014K#2,565
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201014K#2,627
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200010K#3,297
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—208#35,619
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—115#1,654
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196149—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—36—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197120—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—16#94,489
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195113—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 35 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Duenas?
We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Duenas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Duenas have the most bearers?
Duenas is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled dueñas.
How common is Duenas compared with other names?
In Peru, Duenas is the 475th most common surname of 172,415 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Duenas mean?
Recorded meaning: employed in the quarters of the female members of a noble family, from Sp.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Duenas” — the 475th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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