Pines
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pines is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks and Worcs. variant of Penfold with post-medieval confusion between fold and field. Compare Pinfold Farm in Meriden (Warwicks), first recorded as Pynfold in 1638.
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 283 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks and Worcs. variant of Penfold with post-medieval confusion between fold and field. Compare Pinfold Farm in Meriden (Warwicks), first recorded as Pynfold in 1638. Spellings with -on- or -un- are partly dialectal (Pun- for standard English Pin-, from Old English pyn-) and partly from confusion between pen and pound as words for an animal enclosure.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pines counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.9K | Pines | 283 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Pines | 35 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Pines | 40 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 180 | Pines | 88 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Pines | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 378 | Pines | 12 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Pines is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of piner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of pinar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite genitive singular of pine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, plural of pin
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)
- Yehiel Mikhal Pinesb. 1824BYrabbi and Zionist writer (1843-1913)
- Noah Pinesb. 1871ILHebrew writer and poet
- Meyer Isser Pinesb. 1881BYRussian Yiddish historian (1881–1942)
- Herman Pinesb. 1902USAmerican chemist (1902–1996)
- David Pinesb. 1924USAmerican physicist (1924–2018)
- Alexander Pinesb. 1945USIsraeli-born American chemist (1945–2024)
- Jonathon Noe Joseph Pinesb. 1961GBHead of the Cancer Biology Division at the Institute of Cancer Research in London
- Yuri Pinesb. 1964ILUkraine-born Israeli sinologist (born 1964)
- Guy Pinnesb. 1968ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli television presenter
- Donovan Pinesb. 1998USAmerican soccer player
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,606 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,806 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 378 | #10,024 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 378 | #10,011 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 180 | #22,819 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Pines mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks and Worcs. variant of Penfold with post-medieval confusion between fold and field. Compare Pinfold Farm in Meriden (Warwicks), first recorded as Pynfold in 1638. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Pines have the most bearers?
- Pines is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled pines.
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About this data
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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, “Pines”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.