Pigñataro

surname · Latin script

Pigñataro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Pignataro.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 45K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 23K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 124K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

1,015 people

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

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:

Locally spelled Pignataro in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil 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(measured from records)

Borrowed from Italian Pignataro.

Sources 3

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pigñataro 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 Pigñataro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina1,0151 in 45K1KPignataro53
US United States9471 in 351K965Pignataro61
BR Brazil3411 in 621K341Pignataro53
UY Uruguay1481 in 23K148Pignataro23
CH Switzerland681 in 124K68Pignataro4
CR Costa Rica181 in 283K18Pignataro14

1,015 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Pigñataro is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Pignataro

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 Pigñataro 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

What does the name Pigñataro mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Italian Pignataro. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Pigñataro have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Pigñataro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pignataro.
Where is Pigñataro most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pigñataro is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pigñataro?
In Argentina, the national register counted 1,015 people named Pigñataro, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.

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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 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, “Pigñataro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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