Pinzón

loc · Latin script

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)

≈79,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
343 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 672 (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
PinzónLatin(measured from records)
ПинсонCyrillic(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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 the surname Pinzón is found

(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.

Where Pinzón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#118≈79,000 est.≈1 in 67234Pinzon170
MX Mexico—≈10,000 est.≈1 in 13K336Pinzon122
US United States—7,362as Pinson1 in 45K7.4KPinson343
GT Guatemala#282≈5,100 est.≈1 in 3.6K—Pinzon30
FR France—≈5,000 est.≈1 in 14K596—6
VE Venezuela#647≈4,600 est.≈1 in 6.2K—Pinzon34
PA Panama#23≈3,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K41Pinzon58
EC Ecuador—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 7.1K23Pinzon33
ES Spain—2,4921 in 20K2.5KPinzon90

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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Pinzón is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Pínzón, Pinzon, Pínzon

  • French surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada

    Also written Pinzon, Pinzano, Pinzõn, Pinzőn, Pinzön

  • Swedish surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Canada, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Pinzon, Pinzano

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Pinzon, Pinzano, Pinzòn

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Pinzon, Pinzano

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Pinzon

  • Korean surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador

    Also written Pinzon

22 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.

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)
1400160018002000Martín Alonso Pinzón, b. 1441Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, b. 1462Irán Castillo, b. 1977

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Pinzón?
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. After it come Mexico, United States, Guatemala and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
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.

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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, “Pinzón” — the 118th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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