Pinto
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: chick (young chicken)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pĩtu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pinto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 115(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 257
- AOAngola≈1 in 917
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #534 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 115 (inferred from the name graph)
824,756 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
nickname for a person with a blotchy complexion or pepper-and-salt hair, from pinto mottled (LL pinctus, for class. L pictus, past part, of pingere to paint). (Nor¬ Vars.: Sp.: Pintado. Port.: Pinta (partly Jewish, Anglicized Pinter). It.: Pintus, Lo Pinto, La Pinta (Sicily).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pinto is read(measured from records)
Pinto is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese59%
chick (young chicken)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish25%
nickname for a person with a blotchy complexion or pepper-and-salt hair, from pinto mottled (LL pinctus, for class. L pictus, past part, of pingere to paint). (Nor¬ Vars.: Sp.: Pintado. Port.: Pinta (partly Jewish, Anglicized Pinter). It.: Pintus, Lo Pinto, La Pinta (Sicily).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
spotted, pinto, mottled, blotchy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pinto in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pinto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #40 | 824,756 | 1 in 257 | 825K | Pinto | 232 |
| PT Portugal | #13 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 115 | — | Pinto | 210 |
| AO Angola | #15 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 917 | 2 | Pinto | 62 |
| AR Argentina | — | 25,392 | 1 in 1.8K | 25K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 21,366 | 1 in 16K | 22K | Pinto | 375 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 14,532 | 1 in 1.2K | 15K | Pinto | 47 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 684 | — | 45 |
824,756 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pinto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do lat. pinctus, pintado/colorido; pele escura, ruiva ou sardenta
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
chick
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Galician, a spotted variety of Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta), locally considered a different species
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francisco Antonio Pintob. 1785CLChilean politician and President (1785-1858)
- Aníbal Pintob. 1825CLChilean politician and President (1825-1884)
- Manuel Pinto da Costab. 1937STPresident of São Tomé and Príncipe, economist
- Nelson Freireb. 1944BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian pianist (1944–2021)
- Jorge Luis Pintob. 1952COColombian football manager
- José Sócratesb. 1957PTnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011
- João Vieira Pintob. 1971PTPortuguese footballer
- Ricardo Sá Pintob. 1972PTPortuguese football player/manager/director
- José Manuel Pinto Coloradob. 1975ESSpanish footballer
- Freida Pintob. 1984INIndian actress
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 59 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 825K | #62 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 25K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 22K | #1,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 21K | #1,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,883 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 15K | #300 |
| LU Luxembourg | Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 684 | #70 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 113 | — |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #101 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Pinto come from?
- nickname for a person with a blotchy complexion or pepper-and-salt hair, from pinto mottled (LL pinctus, for class. L pictus, past part, of pingere to paint). (Nor¬ Vars.: Sp.: Pintado. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Pinto?
- A machine transcription gives /pĩtu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Pinto mean?
- In Portuguese, chick (young chicken)
- What are other forms of the name Pinto?
- In the etymology graph, Pintar is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pinto have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 825 thousand people named Pinto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinto.
- How common is the name Pinto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 824,756 people named Pinto, about 1 in 257 residents.
- How common is Pinto compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Pinto is the 40th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pinto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pintoThe 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, “Pinto” — the 40th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.