Penina

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Coral

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Penina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 337K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 384K
  • FIFinland1 in 796K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

986 people, 2020

Sources
159 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 337K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Coral

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Penina 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.

Where Penina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9861 in 337K986Penina159
BR Brazil1701 in 1.2M186——
NL Netherlands451 in 384K45Penina3
SE Sweden81 in 1.3M8——
FI Finland71 in 796K35—4
DK Denmark71 in 838K7——

986 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Penina is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, France, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Pénina, Pènina

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Пенина, Пеніна, Peninah

  • Bulgarian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Russia, Tanzania

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Пенина

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 36 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Penina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020986#12,576
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—186#14,776
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022170—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—170#28,517
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—158#28,907
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990148—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980122—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)196094—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)195064—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—45#9,002
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)194040—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202239—

Reference works 2

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 Penina mean, and where does it come from?
Coral Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
Is Penina a male or female name?
Penina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Penina have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 986 people named Penina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled penina.
Where is Penina most common?
Penina is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 337 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Penina?
In the United States, the national register counted 986 people named Penina in 2020, about 1 in 337 thousand residents.

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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, “Penina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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