Pinheiro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pine tree
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/piɲejɾu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pinheiro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 249(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 136K
- UYUruguay1 in 6.6K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- 1 in 249 (inferred from the name graph)
850,059 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pine tree
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pinheiro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 850,059 | 1 in 249 | 850K | Pinheiro | 9 |
| US United States | — | 2,445 | 1 in 136K | 2.8K | Pinheiro | 199 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,005 | 1 in 8.4K | 1K | Pinheiro | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 847 | 1 in 59K | 847 | Pinheiro | 20 |
| AR Argentina | — | 725 | 1 in 63K | 725 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 510 | 1 in 6.6K | 510 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 29 | 1 in 26K | 29 | — | 3 |
| PT Portugal | #989 | — | — | — | Pinheiro | 5 |
850,059 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Pinheiro 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 Portuguese, pine (any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, or similar)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Rafael Bordalo Pinheirob. 1846PTPortuguese artist (1846-1905)
- Columbano Bordalo Pinheirob. 1857PTPortuguese artist (1857-1929)
- Philip Van Zandtb. 1904NLnot in their usual nameactor (1904–1958)
- Fernanda Montenegrob. 1929BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress and writer
- Clara Nunesb. 1943BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian recording artist, singer (1943–1983)
- Jorge Jesusb. 1954PTnot in their usual namePortuguese football manager and former player
- Bruno Pinheirob. 1976PTPortuguese football manager (born 1976)
- Julio César Pinheirob. 1976BRBrazilian association football player
- Alan Pinheirob. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
- Éder Militãob. 1998BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1998)
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 36 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 850K | #59 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,652 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,044 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1K | #1,184 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 847 | #5,129 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 847 | #5,129 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 725 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 510 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 29 | #596 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Pinheiro mean, and where does it come from?
- pine tree Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Pinheiro?
- In the etymology graph, Piñero and Pinha are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pinheiro?
- A machine transcription gives /piɲejɾu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Pinheiro have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 850 thousand people named Pinheiro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinheiro.
- Where is Pinheiro most common?
- Pinheiro is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 249 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pinheiro?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 850,059 people named Pinheiro, about 1 in 249 residents.
- How common is Pinheiro compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Pinheiro is the 989th most common surname of 45,564 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/pinheiroThe 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, “Pinheiro” — the 989th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.