Pinales

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pinales/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pinales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 167K
  • UYUruguay1 in 52K

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.

Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,200 people, est.

Sources
160 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pinales 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 Pinales is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DO Dominican Republic#120≈9,200 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Pinales46
US United States—1,9921 in 167K2.1KPinales160
GT Guatemala—≈320 est.≈1 in 54K—Pinales11
ES Spain—3061 in 163K306Pinales36
CO Colombia—≈110 est.≈1 in 448K—Pinales10
UY Uruguay—651 in 52K65Pinales6

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Pinales is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Piñales, Pïnålês

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Piñales

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines

    Also written Pinalès

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Piñales

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pinales is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Priežu rinda

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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)

FormalEstimado/a Pinales,Dear Pinales, (English)
InformalHola Pinales,Hi Pinales, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Pinales
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.1K#13,598
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102K#14,866
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#19,018
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—306#11,864
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—306#11,847
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—65—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Pinales?
A machine transcription gives /pinales/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Pinales have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Pinales in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinales.
How common is the name Pinales?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,992 people named Pinales in 2010, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
How common is Pinales compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Pinales is the 120th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Pinales” — the 120th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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