as a Last Name
- 9,769
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Centeno
Meaning & Origins
Spanish: from centeno ‘rye’ (Late Latin centenum, a derivative of centum ‘hundred’, so called as the plant was supposed to be capable of producing a hundred grains on each stalk). The a surname may have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold rye, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a field given over to the cultivation of this crop.
| 3,671st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 9,769
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Centeno per capita
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