Pinela
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pinela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pinela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Portuguese Pinela; this surname is predominantly found in Ecuador and Puerto Rico.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 37K
- ARArgentina1 in 134K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
5,198 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Portuguese Pinela; this surname is predominantly found in Ecuador and Puerto Rico.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pinela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #590 | 5,198 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.2K | Pinela | 24 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Pinela | 1 |
| US United States | — | 532 | 1 in 625K | 600 | Pinela | 103 |
| PT Portugal | #890 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Pinela | 45 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Pinela | 34 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 371 | 1 in 9.1K | 371 | Pinela | 13 |
| AR Argentina | — | 339 | 1 in 134K | 339 | Pinela | 31 |
5,198 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Janet Pinelab. 1901MXMexican writer and stage actor
- Nahuel Roldánb. 1998UYnot in their usual nameassociation football player
- Joseba PinelaESSpanish voice actor
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
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
- What does the name Pinela mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Portuguese Pinela; this surname is predominantly found in Ecuador and Puerto Rico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Pinela?
- A machine transcription gives /pinela/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Pinela have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Pinela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinela.
- Where is Pinela most common?
- Pinela is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pinela?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 5,198 people named Pinela in 2024, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Pinela compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Pinela is the 590th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pinelaThe 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, “Pinela” — the 590th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.