Pina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: borderstone
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 36 countries · latest register: CNE, 2026
/ˈpi.na/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Pina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Cape Verde it is the 6th most common surname.
- CVCape Verde≈1 in 83few records(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 690
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 364 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 83 (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cape Verde, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Piña in VE Venezuela, MX Mexico, CL Chile and 1 more and Pani in IN India.
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)borderstone
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #131 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 692 | — | Piña | 46 |
| BR Brazil | #353 | 27,327 | 1 in 7.7K | 27K | Pina | 141 |
| IN India | — | 26,568as Pani | 1 in 50K | 27K | Pani | 136 |
| US United States | — | 25,293 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Pina | 364 |
| MX Mexico | #428 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 944 | Piña | 157 |
| EC Ecuador | #595 | 15,451as Pin | 1 in 1.1K | 15K | Piña | 28 |
| PT Portugal | #112 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Pina | 133 |
| CL Chile | #311 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 1 | Piña | 61 |
| CV Cape Verde | #6 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 83 | 10 | Pina | 38 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names; CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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)Pina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma fem. de Pino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, weibl. Vom., italienische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In jpx-pro, province, barbarians
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Russian, "kick."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In jpx-pro, chicken
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)- Rui de Pinab. 1440PTPortuguese chronicler (1440–1522)
- Cecilia Bartoloméb. 1940ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film director
- Marcial Pinab. 1946ESSpanish footballer
- Álex Pinab. 1967ESwriter and producer, known for Money Heist (2017), Paco's Men (2005) and The Boat (2011)
- Lurab. 1975PTnot in their usual nameCapeverdian singer
- André Villas-Boasb. 1977PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football manager (born 1977)
- Jorge Pina Pérezb. 1977ESSpanish fencer
- João Pinab. 1981PTPortuguese judoka
- Kevin Pinab. 1997CVCape Verdean footballer
- Claudia Pinab. 2001ESassociation football player
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)78 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27K | #644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 25K | #1,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 25K | #1,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 19K | #1,692 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 386 | #786 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 19 | #81,330 |
| CV Cape Verde | CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026) | 2026 | 10 | #9 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2023 | 1 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Pina mean, and where does it come from?
- borderstone Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Pina?
- In the etymology graph, Fiene, Fien and Posy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pina?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈpi.na/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /pinɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Pina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Pina in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled piña.
- How common is the name Pina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 27,327 people named Pina, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Pina compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Pina is the 131st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pinaThe 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, “Pina” — the 131st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.