Tineo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A South American tree, Weinmannia trichosperma

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/tinɛo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.9K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 2.9K

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 people, est.

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 South American tree, Weinmannia trichosperma.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tineo 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 Tineo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#294≈16,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Tineo68
VE Venezuela#426≈9,800 est.≈1 in 2.9K—Tineo58
DO Dominican Republic#115≈9,300 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Tineo52
US United States—2,7921 in 119K3KTineo178
ES Spain—1,6631 in 30K1.7KTineo91
BO Bolivia—≈260 est.≈1 in 46K—Tineo20

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)

Tineo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tineu, Tineö, Ťiñeo, Tïnëö, Tíneo

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Spain, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Tineu

  • Lao surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Peru, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Tínéó

44 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)

Tineo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, to be infested by moths (or their maggots)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, moth

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Giuseppe Tineo, b. 1756Vincenzo Tineo, b. 1791Luis Armando Tineo Rivera, b. 1948Duberlí Rodríguez, b. 1949José Amable Durán Tineo, b. 1971Jonathan Tineo, b. 1978Nathalie Tineo, b. 1982

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)

FormalEstimado/a Tineo,Dear Tineo, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Tineo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Tineo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203K#10,175
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.8K#11,312
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.8K#14,841
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.7K#2,830
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.7K#2,830
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Tineo mean, and where does it come from?
A South American tree, Weinmannia trichosperma. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Tineo?
A machine transcription gives /tinɛo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Tineo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Tineo in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tineo.
How common is the name Tineo?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,792 people named Tineo in 2010, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
How common is Tineo compared with other names?
In Peru, Tineo is the 294th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Tineo” — the 294th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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