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Early Origins of the Pineda family

The surname Pineda was first found in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain.

Early History of the Pineda family

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Pineda Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Pino, Piñón, Piña, Pinar, Piñares, Pinilla, Pinillo, Piñol, Pinoy, Pineda, Piñero, Pinares, Pinhal, Pinon, Pinoy, Pinede, Pinet, Pinat, Le Pin, Pinelli and many more.

Early Notables of the Pineda family

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Pineda Ranking

In the United States, the name Pineda is the 1,282nd most popular surname with an estimated 24,870 people with that name. 1


United States Pineda migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Pineda Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Diego De Pineda, who landed in Venezuela in 1834 2
  • Pedro De Pineda, who arrived in Peru in 1834 2
  • Juan Crisostomo Pineda, who arrived in Texas in 1835 2
  • Maria Pineda, who landed in New Spain in 1837 2
  • Dorotea Pineda, who arrived in New Spain in 1877 2
  • ... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)
Pineda Settlers in United States in the 20th Century
  • Girolamo Pineda, aged 23, who immigrated to the United States from Pantelleria, Sicily, in 1907
  • Cecilia Pineda, aged 37, who immigrated to the United States from Havana, Cuba, in 1908
  • Barbara Pineda, aged 18, who landed in America from Italy, in 1911
  • Diego Pineda, aged 29, who immigrated to America from Valencia, Spain, in 1917
  • Carlos Pineda, aged 24, who settled in America, in 1919
  • ... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Contemporary Notables of the name Pineda (post 1700) +

  • Cecile Pineda (1932-2022), American novelist who won numerous awards including the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California in 1986 for Face, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
  • Marianna Pineda (1925-1996), American realist sculptor
  • Jon Pineda, American poet and memoirist
  • Luis Pineda (b. 1974), former American Major League Baseball player
  • Michael Francisco Pineda (b. 1989), Dominican-American Major League Baseball starting pitcher
  • David Pineda, American Republican politician, Candidate for Texas State House of Representatives 144th District, 2012 3
  • Charles Pineda Jr. (b. 1940), American politician, American Independent Candidate for Governor of California, 2003 3
  • Ángel Peralta Pineda (1926-2018), known as Centauro de las Marismas, a Spanish rejoneador (bull fighter) and actor from La Puebla del Río, Spain
  • Iván de Pineda, Spanish-Argentine international fashion model, television host and film actor
  • Pablo Pineda (b. 1975), Spanish actor
  • ... (Another 12 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 23) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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