# Cetina (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/cetina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 537 |
| US rank (2010) | 40,672 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 574,945 people |
| Change since 2000 | +35% (399 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Three possible origins: * Borrowed from Spanish Cetina, a habitational surname from a small village in Aragona. * Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Cetina, a habitational surname from a small village in Croatia or from the river which flows by it. * Borrowed from Slovene Četina, a nickname for a hairy or bearded man, from a dialect form of ščetina (“bristle”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Cetina in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 19% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 80% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 0.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Cetina in Austria.

## People named Cetina

- Karin Knorr Cetina, Austrian sociologist

## Similar surnames

Cotton, Cheatham, Cadena, Cedeno, Cotten, Caton, Chatham, Cowden, Cauthen, Catania, Cawthon, Cayton.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.