The Pinero surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,585 people carried this name — #12,064 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 113,600 people counted. That is up 24% from 2,077 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Pinero surname
From Spanish Piñero. Note that the omission of the tilde will make the pronunciation incorrect.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Pinero» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 7,071 people named Pinero live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 137 people named Pinero.
66 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
30 people named Pinero live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Neuchâtel.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Pinero in American newspapers,
1893–1925.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 13,381 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Pinero,
with a public archive behind them.
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Harry Pinero 1991– · media personality
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Daniel Pinero 1994– · baseball player
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Pinero.
- Pinchot 268 · U.S. census
- Pineau 857 · U.S. census
- Pineault 337 · U.S. census
- Pineda 60,820 · U.S. census
- Pinel 384 · U.S. census
- Pinelli 824 · U.S. census
- Pinet 374 · U.S. census
- Pinhas 123 · U.S. census
- Pinheiro 2,445 · U.S. census
- Pini 612 · U.S. census
- Pink 2,578 · U.S. census
- Pinna 245 · U.S. census
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