Pena (surname)

Pena is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Danny Pena (born 1968), American soccer player
• Gilbert Pena (born 1949), American politician
• Javier Pena, one of the DEA agents who captured and killed Pablo Escobar, and a principal character in the Netflix series Narcos
• Marius Pena (born 1985), Romanian soccer player
• Paul Pena (1950–2005), American singer

Peña or de la Peña is a Spanish habitation surname. The origin of the surname can be traced directly to the Middle Ages. The earliest public record of the surname dates to the 13th century in the Valley de Mena (Burgos) in the Kingdom of Castile. The origin of the last name is in present day Galicia, Spain. The Peñas lived, originally, near a cliff or rocky land. Records indicate that the name derives from the Spanish word peña meaning "rock," "crag" or "cliff."