Spínola

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Spínola is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Spinola, but also from Portuguese Spínola.

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)
Derivation of Spínola: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Spínola
  1. ItalianSpinola(measured from records)
  2. PortugueseSpínola(measured from records)

Borrowed from Italian Spinola, but also from Portuguese Spínola.

Cited for this meaning 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)

Spínola counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Spínola is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
BR Brazil—4.6K—
US United States—687—
ES Spain—534—
GB United Kingdom—159—
AR Argentina—132—

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 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Spínola is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Spinola

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Spinola, Spïnölä

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Spinola

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy

    Also written Spinola

17 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1400160018002000Federico Spínola, b. 1571Stefano Spinola, b. 1618Ambrosio Ignacio Spinola y Guzman, b. 1632Marcelo Spinola y Maestre, b. 1835Guilherme Spínola de Melo, b. 1876Magdalena Spínola, b. 1896António de Spínola, b. 1910Luis Fajardo Spínola, b. 1946Cristina Spínola, b. 1976Vanessa Spinola, b. 1990

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)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

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

What does the name Spínola mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Italian Spinola, but also from Portuguese Spínola. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Spínola have the most bearers?
Spínola is most frequently recorded in Brazil.

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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, “Spínola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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