Peñalva
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/peɲalβa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peñalva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 11K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 26K
- PEPeru≈1 in 128K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
4,299 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Penalva in ES Spain, BR Brazil, FR France.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peñalva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #978 | 4,299 | 1 in 11K | 4.3K | Peñalva | 37 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,945 | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | Penalva | 98 |
| BR Brazil | — | 859 | 1 in 246K | 859 | Penalva | 71 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 512 | 1 in 6.6K | 512 | Peñalva | 14 |
| FR France | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 186K | 67 | Penalva | 133 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Peñalva | 19 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Peñalva | 8 |
4,299 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Juan Carlos Blanco Peñalvab. 1946UYUruguayan association football player
- Joan Simó Peñalvab. 1951ESSpanish film director, writer
- Conchi Zapatab. 1964ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1964)
- Mariana Peñalvab. 1979MXMexican Biodesigner, transdisciplinary artist & Innovative Entrepreneur
- Rebeca Peñalvaresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-5637-7187)
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.3K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 769 | #5,577 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 769 | #5,576 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Peñalva?
- A machine transcription gives /peɲalβa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Peñalva have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Peñalva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peñalva.
- Where is Peñalva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peñalva is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 6.6 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Peñalva?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 4,299 people named Peñalva, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Peñalva compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Peñalva is the 978th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Peñalva?
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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%B1alvaThe 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, “Peñalva” — the 978th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.