Penalber
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Penalber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 339K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 461K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 339K (inferred from the name graph)
243 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Penalber 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 243 | 1 in 1.4M | 243 | Penalber | 78 |
| BR Brazil | — | 217 | 1 in 976K | 217 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 134 | 1 in 339K | 134 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Penalber | 20 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Penalber | 6 |
| LR Liberia | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Penalber | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #787 | — | — | — | Penalber | 1 |
243 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Victor Penalberb. 1990BRBrazilian judoka
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 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 243 | #78,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 231 | #86,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 217 | #81,100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 217 | #34,383 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Penalber have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 243 people named Penalber, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled penalber.
- Where is Penalber most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Penalber is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 339 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Penalber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 243 people named Penalber in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Penalber compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Penalber is the 787th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Penalber?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/penalberThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Penalber” — the 787th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.