Peñafiel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Peñafiel (a town and municipality of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/peɲafjel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peñafiel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname.
- ECEcuador1 in 440(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 22K
- CLChile≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 440 (inferred from the name graph)
38,379 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Penafiel in US United States, ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Peñafiel (a town and municipality of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peñafiel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #34 | 38,379 | 1 in 440 | 38K | Peñafiel | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,314 | 1 in 22K | 2.3K | Peñafiel | 63 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Penafiel | 6 |
| BO Bolivia | #463 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Peñafiel | 27 |
| US United States | — | 1,160 | 1 in 287K | 1.3K | Penafiel | 153 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Peñafiel | 33 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Peñafiel | 38 |
38,379 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antonio Peñafielb. 1831MXMexican doctor, scientist and scholar who participated in founding the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, and in studying Mexico's pre-Columbian history and in documenting Native American languages
- Juan de la Cierva y Peñafielb. 1864ESSpanish politician and lawyer (1864-1938)
- Isidoro de la Cierva y Peñafielb. 1870ESSpanish politician (1870-1939)
- Jaime Peñafielb. 1932ESSpanish journalist
- Antonio Peñafiel Ramónb. 1949ESSpanish historian
- Adriana Peñafielb. 1950CLChilean politician
- Kike Morandéb. 1954CLnot in their usual nameChilean TV host and businessman
- Cristian PeñafielECEcuadorian taekwondoin
- Mariano PeñafielCLChilean politician and businessman
- Nicolas PeñafielECEcuadorian herpetologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Peñafiel mean, and where does it come from?
- Peñafiel (a town and municipality of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Peñafiel?
- A machine transcription gives /peɲafjel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Peñafiel have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Peñafiel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peñafiel.
- Where is Peñafiel most common?
- Peñafiel is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 440 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Peñafiel?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 38,379 people named Peñafiel in 2024, about 1 in 440 residents.
- How common is Peñafiel compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Peñafiel is the 34th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pe%C3%B1afielThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Peñafiel” — the 34th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.