Pinin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A protein associated with desmosome (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries

/pinin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Pinin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.

  • PEPeru≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 820K
  • USUnited States≈1 in 47Mfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈930 people, est.

Record sources
18 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Piñin in PE Peru, CL Chile.

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.

How to pronounce Pinin

  • Spanish:/pinin/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A protein associated with desmosome

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where the surname Pinin is found

(measured from records)

Pinin 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 Pinin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru≈930 est.≈1 in 37K—Piñin18
ES Spain611 in 820K61Pinin14
US United States≈7 est.≈1 in 47MlistedPinin9
DE Germany≈6 est.≈1 in 15M—Pinin4
MX Mexico≈4 est.≈1 in 36M—Pinin7
CL Chile≈4 est.≈1 in 5M—Piñin9
AR Argentina≈3 est.≈1 in 14M—Pinin12

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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

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

  • Russian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Пинин, Пінін, Piñin, Пинін, Pinín

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru

    Also written Piñin, Pinín

  • Thai surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written Pin-In

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Piñin

18 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)

Pinin 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 pms, Youngest (smallest) brother.

    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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalEstimado/a Pinin,Dear Pinin, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Pinin,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pinin mean, and where does it come from?
A protein associated with desmosome Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pinin?
In Spanish /pinin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Pinin?
Mondonomo estimates about 927 people named Pinin in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled piñin. After it come Spain, United States, Germany and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Pinin?
In Spain, the national register counted 61 people named Pinin, about 1 in 820 thousand residents.

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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, “Pinin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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