Centeno Family History

Spanish: from centeno ‘rye’ (from 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 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.

Compare Senteno and Zenteno.