Piñales

Name: Piñales: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Piñales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country.

rarermore common

DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 167K
UYUruguay1 in 52K

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.

: Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 160 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Pinales

Locally spelled Pinales in DO Dominican Republic, US United States, ES Spain and 3 more.

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)

Piñales 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 Piñales is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DO Dominican Republic	#120	≈9,200 est.	≈1 in 1.1K	—	Pinales	46
US United States	—	1,992	1 in 167K	2.1K	Pinales	160
GT Guatemala	—	≈320 est.	≈1 in 54K	—	Pinales	11
ES Spain	—	306	1 in 163K	306	Pinales	36
CO Colombia	—	≈110 est.	≈1 in 448K	—	Pinales	10
UY Uruguay	—	65	1 in 52K	65	Pinales	6

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: 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); 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(inferred from the name graph)

Piñales is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Pinales, Pïnålês
Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Pinales

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Piñales under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Piñales have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Piñales in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinales.
How common is the name Piñales?: In the United States, the national register counted 1,992 people named Piñales in 2010, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
How common is Piñales compared with other names?: In the Dominican Republic, Piñales is the 120th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pi%C3%B1ales

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Piñales” — the 120th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)