Pinoy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Filipino; a citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines and those descending from such, especially a male
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pinɔɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pinoy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 48K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 121M
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
245 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Filipino; a citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines and those descending from such, especially a male.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pinoy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 245 | 1 in 48K | 245 | — | 2 |
| IN India | 11 | 1 in 121M | 11 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Pinoy | 10 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Pinoy | 11 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Pinoy | 5 |
245 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
- Pierre Ernest Pinoyb. 1873FRbotanist (1873-1948)
- Marijke Pinoyb. 1958BEBelgian actress
- Antoine PinoyFRFrench gymnast
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 245 | #6,845 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 241 | #7,300 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #113,585 |
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 Pinoy mean, and where does it come from?
- A Filipino; a citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines and those descending from such, especially a male. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Pinoy?
- In the etymology graph, Pinay is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pinoy?
- A machine transcription gives /pinɔɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pinoy have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 245 people named Pinoy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pinoy most common?
- Pinoy is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 48 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pinoy?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 245 people named Pinoy in 2008, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pinoyThe 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, “Pinoy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.