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Pineda
Spanish and Catalan: habitational name from any of the places in the provinces of Barcelona, Cuenca, and Burgos named Pineda, from Spanish and Catalan pineda ‘pine forest’.
in some instances possibly Asturian-Leonese Pineda, from a town called Pineda in Asturies.

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Pineda
Origin: Spanish

Spelling variations of this family name include: Pino, Pian, Pina, Pinar, Pinares, Pinilla, Pinillo, Pinol, Pinoy, Pineda, Pinero, Pinares, Pinhal, Pinon, Pinoy, Pinede, Pinet, Pinat, Le Pin, Pinelli and many more.
First found in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were among the first to voyage to the New World, and many who settled in the Caribbean and Central America.

Nothing found about it being Sephardic Jewish.

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name.
Pineda
Spanish and Catalan: habitational name from any of the places in the provinces of Barcelona, Cuenca, and Burgos named Pineda, from Spanish and Catalan pineda ‘pine forest’.
in some instances possibly Asturian-Leonese Pi?eda, from a town called Pi?eda in Asturies.
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