Peñalver

Name: Peñalver: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries

/peɲalbeɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Peñalver is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Peñalver. This surname is mostly found in Cuba.

ESSpain1 in 6K(measured from records)
VEVenezuela≈1 in 6.2K
ARArgentina1 in 35K

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.

: Spain (measured from records)
Record sources: 144 (measured from records)
: 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Penalver

Locally spelled Penalver in US United States, 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

Borrowed from Spanish Peñalver. This surname is mostly found in Cuba.

Cited for this meaning 1

Wiktionary

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Peñalver 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.

Where Peñalver is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
ES Spain	#676	8,295	1 in 6K	8.3K	Peñalver	85
VE Venezuela	#669	≈4,600 est.	≈1 in 6.2K	—	Peñalver	24
AR Argentina	—	1,312	1 in 35K	1.3K	Peñalver	30
US United States	—	629	1 in 529K	629	Penalver	136
FR France	—	≈540 est.	≈1 in 126K	70	Penalver	144
CU Cuba	—	≈190 est.	≈1 in 57K	—	Peñalver	15
UY Uruguay	—	64	1 in 53K	64	Peñalver	4

8,295 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Other names spelled this way

Peñalver is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Penalver, Peñálver
Hindi surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, United States
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Penalver
Russian surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, United States, Russia
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Also written Penalver
Croatian surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain
Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian
Also written Penalver
Italian surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, United States, Italy
Also written Penalver, Peňalver

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

Gustavob. 1939ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter
Javier Nartb. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
Leandro Peñalverb. 1961CUCuban sprinter
Diana Peñalverb. 1965ESSpanish actress
Antonio Peñalverb. 1968ESSpanish decathlete
Enrique Peñalverb. 1968ESSpanish paleontologist
Bertab. 1981ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer-songwriter
Luís Enrique Peñalverb. 1996ESSpanish badminton player
Manuel Peñalverb. 1998ESSpanish road racing cyclist
Sara Peñalver Pereirab. 1999ESbadminton player

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

FormalEstimado/a Peñalver,Dear Peñalver, (English)

InformalEstimado/a Peñalver,Hello, (English)

Evidence

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Peñalver
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
ES Spain	INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)	—	8.3K	#670
ES Spain	INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)	—	8.3K	#670
AR Argentina	RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)	—	1.3K	—

Reference works 2

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Peñalver mean, and where does it come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Peñalver. This surname is mostly found in Cuba. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Peñalver?: In Spanish /peɲalbeɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Peñalver have the most bearers?: In Spain, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Peñalver, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peñalver.
Where is Peñalver most common?: Peñalver is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Peñalver?: In Spain, the national register counted 8,295 people named Peñalver, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
How common is Peñalver compared with other names?: In Spain, Peñalver is the 676th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 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, “Peñalver” — the 676th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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