Pimentel

At the 2020 census, 22,193 Americans bore the surname Pimentel — 1,577th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,500.

By the numbers

People: 22,193
Rank: 1,577th
How common: 1 in 13,500
Per 100,000: 7.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

Borrowed from Portuguese Pimentel, from pimenta.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pimentel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 74.1%
White, not Hispanic 18.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Pimentel

Valentín Pimentel (born 1991)Panamanian association football player
Esmeralda Pimentel (born 1988)American Mexican actress and model
Pedro Antonio Pimentel (1830–1874)1830-1874 Dominican military and political figure, 9th President of the Dominican Republic
Juan de Zúñiga y Pimentel (1465–1504)Spanish cardinal
George C. Pimentel (1922–1989)American chemist and academic
Jessica Pimentel (born 1982)American actress and singer

People named Pimentel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.