Penafiel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: INEC, 2023
/penafjel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Penafiel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Penafiel, Portugal.
- ECEcuador1 in 440(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 22K
- CLChile≈1 in 27K
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)
- Record sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 440 (inferred from the name graph)
38,379 people, 2024
recorded for this name
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 Peñafiel in EC Ecuador, PE Peru, CL Chile and 2 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)Penafiel, Portugal
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Penafiel 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 | #34 | 38,379 | 1 in 440 | 38K | Peñafiel | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,314 | 1 in 22K | 2.3K | Peñafiel | 63 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Penafiel | 6 |
| BO Bolivia | #463 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Peñafiel | 27 |
| US United States | — | 1,160 | 1 in 287K | 1.3K | Penafiel | 153 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Peñafiel | 33 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Peñafiel | 38 |
38,379 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Penafiel mean, and where does it come from?
- Penafiel, Portugal Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Penafiel?
- A machine transcription gives /penafjel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Penafiel have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Penafiel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peñafiel.
- Where is Penafiel most common?
- Penafiel is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 440 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Penafiel?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 38,379 people named Penafiel in 2024, about 1 in 440 residents.
- How common is Penafiel compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Penafiel is the 34th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/penafielThe 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, “Penafiel” — the 34th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.