Penalber
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/penalbeɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Penalber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 243 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- ARArgentina1 in 339K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 976K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1Mfew 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 339K (inferred from the name graph)
243 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Penalber
- Spanish:/penalbeɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/pẽalbɛɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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 the surname Penalber is found
(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 | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Penalber | 20 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Penalber | 6 |
| LR Liberia | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 489K | — | 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Penalber?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /penalbeɾ/; in Portuguese /pẽalbɛɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Penalber?
- 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. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Philippines and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 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, “Penalber” — ranked 78567th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.