Pinilla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pinilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 2.7K
- PAPanama≈1 in 4.5K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
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)
Pinilla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #239 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 20 | Pinilla | 135 |
| ES Spain | #563 | 8,214 | 1 in 6.1K | 8.2K | Pinilla | 148 |
| CL Chile | #406 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Pinilla | 83 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,545 | 1 in 18K | 2.5K | Pinilla | 62 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Pinilla | 25 |
| PA Panama | #106 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 12 | Pinilla | 43 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
- Cándido Rodríguez-Pinillab. 1856ESSpanish poet
- Gustavo Rojas Pinillab. 1900CO26th President of Colombia (1900-1975)
- Enrique Pinillab. 1927PEPeruvian composer and conductor (1927–1989)
- Hipólito Gómez de las Rocesb. 1932ESnot in their usual nameSpanish lawyer and politician
- Jairo Pinillab. 1944COColombian film director
- Susana Pinillab. 1954PEPeruvian anthropologist
- Ramón Mujica Pinillab. 1956PEPeruvian anthropologist and historian
- Antonio Pinillab. 1971ESSpanish football player/general manager
- Fernanda Pinillab. 1993CLChilean footballer
- Felipe Pinillab. 1997CLChilean association 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.2K | #680 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8.2K | #680 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.5K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 20 | #96 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 12 | #267 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #645 |
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
- In which country does Pinilla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Pinilla in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinilla.
- How common is the name Pinilla?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,214 people named Pinilla, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Pinilla compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Pinilla is the 239th most common surname of 144,306 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/pinillaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pinilla” — the 239th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.