Piñela
surname · Latin script
Piñela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country: 5,198 people, counted by INEC in 2024. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Portuguese Pinela; this surname is predominantly found in Ecuador and Puerto Rico.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 9.1K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 19Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
5,198 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pinela in EC Ecuador, CL Chile, MX Mexico and 4 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 Portuguese Pinela; this surname is predominantly found in Ecuador and Puerto Rico.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Piñela is found
(measured from records)Piñela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #590 | 5,198 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.2K | Pinela | 24 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Pinela | 1 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Pinela | 35 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Pinela | 34 |
| PT Portugal | #890 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Pinela | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 371 | 1 in 9.1K | 371 | Pinela | 13 |
| AR Argentina | — | 339 | 1 in 134K | 339 | Pinela | 31 |
5,198 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Piñela mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Portuguese Pinela; this surname is predominantly found in Ecuador and Puerto Rico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Piñela?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Piñela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinela. After it come Pakistan, Mexico, Chile and Portugal; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Piñela most common?
- Piñela is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Piñela?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 5,198 people named Piñela in 2024, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Piñela compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Piñela is the 590th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pi%C3%B1elaThe 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, “Piñela” — ranked 749th in Ecuador (INEC, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.