Pinion
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A wing
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɪnjən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pinion is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 149K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pinion itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 149K (inferred from the name graph)
2,226 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Пинен in RU Russia.
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(measured from records)
A wing.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pinion 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,226 | 1 in 149K | 2.2K | Pinion | 11 |
| ES Spain | 19as Pinen | 1 in 2.6M | 19 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 17 | 1 in 345K | 17 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 44M | — | Пинен | 17 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
2,226 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Pinion is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, gearwheel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chk, billion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, PINIÓN, pinioane, s. n. Roată dințată cu un număr mic de dinți, care intră în componența unui angrenaj, servind la punerea în mișcare a altor roți din angrenajul respectiv. [Pr.: -ni-on].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Bradley Pinionb. 1994USAmerican 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,612 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,986 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,967 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 17 | #26,531 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #167,197 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #21,151 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Pinion mean, and where does it come from?
- A wing. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pinion?
- A machine transcription gives /pɪnjən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pinion have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Pinion, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinion.
- Where is Pinion most common?
- Pinion is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 149 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pinion?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,226 people named Pinion in 2010, about 1 in 149 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, “Pinion”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.