The Cenci surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 537 people carried this name — #40,672 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 555,600 people counted. That is up 3% from 520 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Cenci surname
A surname transferred from the given name.
From the medieval personal name Cencio, a pet form of Vincenzo.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Cenci» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 494 people named Cenci live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Córdoba.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 135 people named Cenci.
33 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
49 people named Cenci live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Cenci,
with a public archive behind them.
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Lucrezia Cenci 1549–1599
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Beatrice Cenci 1577–1599 · aristocrat -
Giacomo Cenci d. 1599 · writer
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Beatrice Fiorenza Cenci Bolognetti d. 1955
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Cencio 1170–1218 · Catholic bishop
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Cencio 1170–1217 · Catholic bishop
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cenci.
- Celli 1,196 · U.S. census
- Celotto 259 · U.S. census
- Cely 279 · U.S. census
- Cena 773 · U.S. census
- Cenac 349 · U.S. census
- Cenatiempo 203 · U.S. census
- Centa 177 · U.S. census
- Centofanti 726 · U.S. census
- Centonze 166 · U.S. census
- Cera 1,224 · U.S. census
- Ceran 100 · U.S. census
- Cerato 165 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Cenci is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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