Pinta
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: look, appearance
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pinta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pinta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 4K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 34K
- THThailand≈1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
4,259 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
third-person singular past historic of pinter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pinta is read(measured from records)
Pinta is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish50%
look, appearance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English18%
A pint of milk.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
one of Columbus ships '
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French7.8%
third-person singular past historic of pinter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Thai7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pinta in Thai.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pinta 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 | — | 4,259 | 1 in 4K | 4.3K | Pinta | 30 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Pinta | 35 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 70K | #365,311 | Pinta | 61 |
| BR Brazil | — | 891 | 1 in 238K | 891 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 418 | 1 in 120K | 418 | Pinta | 59 |
| FI Finland | — | 116 | 1 in 48K | 116 | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 106 | 1 in 101K | 108 | Pinta | 16 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #445 | — | — | — | Pinta | 1 |
4,259 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)
Pinta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, , b. (Sd XVI) ; cf. magh. pinta pivni VA"
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In iba, request
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)
- Amable Louis Pintab. 1820FRFrench painter
- Henri Pintab. 1856FRFrench painter (1856-1944)
- Václav Pintab. 1942CZCzech numismatist
- Tommi Pintab. 1987FIFinnish basketball and American football player (1987-)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Where does the name Pinta come from?
- third-person singular past historic of pinter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pinta?
- A machine transcription gives /pinta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Pinta mean?
- In Spanish, look, appearance
- What are other forms of the name Pinta?
- In the etymology graph, Pinto, Pintado and Pintor are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pinta have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Pinta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinta.
- Where is Pinta most common?
- Pinta is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pinta?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,259 people named Pinta in 2024, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Pinta compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Pinta is the 445th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pinta?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pintaThe 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, “Pinta” — the 445th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.