Pinzón
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Tribunal Electoral, 2024
Pinzón is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Panama it is the 23rd most common surname.
- COColombia≈1 in 670(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 1.5K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pinzón itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 343 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 672 (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pinzon in CO Colombia, MX Mexico, VE Venezuela and 4 more and Pinson in US United States.
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 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pinzón 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #118 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 672 | 34 | Pinzon | 170 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 336 | Pinzon | 122 |
| US United States | — | 7,362as Pinson | 1 in 45K | 7.4K | Pinson | 343 |
| GT Guatemala | #282 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Pinzon | 30 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 596 | — | 6 |
| VE Venezuela | #647 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Pinzon | 34 |
| PA Panama | #23 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 41 | Pinzon | 58 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 23 | Pinzon | 33 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,492 | 1 in 20K | 2.5K | Pinzon | 90 |
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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Pinzón is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, finch (bird)
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)- Martín Alonso Pinzónb. 1441ESSpanish explorer
- Francisco Martín Pinzónb. 1445ESSpanish explorer
- Vicente Yáñez Pinzónb. 1462ESSpanish navigator, explorer
- Daniel Chanis Pinzónb. 1892PAPresident of Panama (1892–1961)
- Mario Laserna Pinzónb. 1923FRColombian politician (1923-2013)
- Irán Castillob. 1977MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress, singer
- Érika Rodríguezb. 1978COnot in their usual nameColombian sociologist
- Alejandra Pinzónb. 1986COColombian actor
- Omar Pinzónb. 1989COAll-American college swimmer, Colombian international swimmer, Olympic competitor
- Rodrigo Contrerasb. 1994COnot in their usual nameColombian cyclist
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 41 | #91 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 7 | #109 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 3 | #107 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Pinzón have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Pinzón in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinzon.
- How common is the name Pinzón?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,492 people named Pinzón, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Pinzón compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Pinzón is the 118th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pinzón?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pinz%C3%B3nThe 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, “Pinzón” — the 118th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.