How common is the surname Pimentel?

21,579 people in the United States had the surname Pimentel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,308 Americans. It ranked 1,671st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Pimentel?

Esmeralda Pimentel, American Mexican actress and model, followed by Pedro Antonio Pimentel.

Where is the surname Pimentel most common?

Wikidata records people named Pimentel in the United States, Brazil and the Dominican Republic and 1 other country.

Is the surname Pimentel getting more or less common?

More common. 16,358 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,579 in 2010, up 32%.

The surname Pimentel

A Portuguese surname, carried by 21,579 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P553

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pimentel is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

Portuguese origin

Borrowed from Portuguese Pimentel, from pimenta.

One of 71 Portuguese surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 21,579 people named Pimentel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,308 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,358.

#1,671

rank among US surnames

21,579

people in 2010

7.3

per 100,000 Americans

+31.9%

change since 2000 (was #2,031)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,662	Feliciano	21,667	14,250
#1,664	Betancourt	21,663	14,252
#1,665	Beaver	21,640	14,267
#1,667	Kilgore	21,627	14,276
#1,668	McGraw	21,614	14,285
#1,669	Dahl	21,598	14,295
#1,670	Diamond	21,586	14,303

Who is named Pimentel

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

74% of people named Pimentel identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 20% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 74%
White (not Hispanic) 20%
Asian and Pacific Islander 4.2%
Two or more races 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Famous Pimentels

7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Esmeralda Pimentel
American Mexican actress and model, born 1988
Pedro Antonio Pimentel
1830-1874 Dominican military and political figure, 9th President of the Dominican Republic
Jessica Pimentel
American actress and singer, born 1982
George C. Pimentel
American chemist and academic (1922-1989)
Monica Pimentel
Aruban taekwondo practitioner., born 1989
Olavo de Carvalho
Brazilian journalist, writer, astrologer, essayist, polemicist, digital influencer and ide, 1947–2022
Lenine
Brazilian singer-songwriter from Recife, Pernambuco, born 1959

Notable Pimentels come mostly from the United States (3), Brazil (2) and the Dominican Republic (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pimentel

Pimentel has the Soundex code P553, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P553.

Other Portuguese surnames

All 71 Portuguese surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Pimentel come from?: Borrowed from Portuguese Pimentel, from pimenta.
How common is the surname Pimentel?: 21,579 people in the United States had the surname Pimentel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,308 Americans. It ranked 1,671st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pimentel?: In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Pimentel identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 20% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Pimentel?: Esmeralda Pimentel, American Mexican actress and model, followed by Pedro Antonio Pimentel.
Where is the surname Pimentel most common?: Wikidata records people named Pimentel in the United States, Brazil and the Dominican Republic and 1 other country.
Is the surname Pimentel getting more or less common?: More common. 16,358 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,579 in 2010, up 32%.