Piñal
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Piñal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 417K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 211K
- ARArgentina1 in 395K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 211K (inferred from the name graph)
797 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pinal in US United States, ES Spain.
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.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Piñal 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 | 797 | 1 in 417K | 797 | Pinal | 140 |
| ES Spain | 237 | 1 in 211K | 237 | Pinal | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 156 | 1 in 1.4M | 156 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 115 | 1 in 395K | 115 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 2 |
797 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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Francisco Aguilar Piñalb. 1931ESSpanish historian
- Matias Gonzalo Piñalb. 1987ARArgentinian association football player
- Ariel Piñalbotanist
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 91 | #29,371 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 91 | #29,285 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 84 | — |
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
- In which country does Piñal have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 797 people named Piñal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinal.
- Where is Piñal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Piñal is densest in Spain — about 1 in 211 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Piñal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 797 people named Piñal in 2010, about 1 in 417 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Piñal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pi%C3%B1alThe 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, “Piñal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.