The gens Pinnia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in history, and few of them attained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, although a few became local governors, and at least one, Lucius Pinnius Porphyrio, held the quaestorship. Many others are known from inscriptions.
Praenomina
The main praenomina of the Pinnii were Titus and Lucius. They occasionally used Quintus and Gaius, and there are instances of Marcus, Aulus, and Publius.
Members
Quintus Pinnius, a friend of Marcus Terentius Varro, the antiquarian, who mentions him in Rerum Rusticarum, his treatise on agriculture. Titus Pinnius, a friend of Cicero, who mentions him in one of his letters. Lucius Pinnius Celer, a soldier named in an inscription from Rome, dating to AD 70. Titus Pinnius Hilarus, made a contract with Publius Decimius Epagathus in March, AD 102. Titus Pinnius Primigenius, together with his wife, Fannia Sabina, dedicated a tomb at Rome for their house slave, Honorata, aged six years, seven months, and twenty-seven days, with an inscription dating to the second century AD, or the latter part of the first. Marcus Pinnius M. l. Surus, a freedman buried at Rome, in a tomb dating to the second century. Pinnia Restuta, a freedwoman buried at Rome, in the tomb of Marcus Pinnius Surus. Quintus Pinnius Onesimus, one of the priests at Ostia in Latium in AD 151. Pinnius Aurelius Venerius, buried at Puteoli in Campania, aged about fifty, according to an inscription belonging to the late third or early fourth centuries AD>