Pia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: second-person singular voseo imperative of piar
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 459(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 2K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 4.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 251 (inferred from the name graph)
23,359 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin origin; short form of Pia, meaning 'pious, dutiful'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pia is read(measured from records)
Pia is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish35%
second-person singular voseo imperative of piar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German18%
a female given name, popular recently
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pia in English.
- Danish7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pia in Danish.
- Swedish5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pia in Swedish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Pia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | — | 23,359 | 1 in 251 | 23K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 23,101 | 1 in 442 | 23K | Pia | 41 |
| FI Finland | #380 | 12,148 | 1 in 459 | 14K | Pia | 20 |
| CL Chile | #236 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 242 | Pia | 116 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Pia | 80 |
| NO Norway | — | 3,754 | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Pia | 25 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,321 | 1 in 906 | 2.3K | — | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | #154 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Pia | 41 |
23,359 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Latin origin; short form of Pia, meaning 'pious, dutiful'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, From Latin pius; means “pious, devoted”.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Latin: ‘pious’. See Italian supplement. R Radegund(e) 2 Germanic: ‘counsel for battle’. Rafael $ German spelling of Raphael, name of one of the archangels.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
From the feminine form of Latin pius ‘pious’. Masculine form: Pio.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Archduchess Maria Anna of Austriab. 1835ATnot in their usual nameAustrian Archduchess (1835–1840)
- Princess Sophie of Liechtensteinb. 1837ATnot in their usual nameLiechtenstein princess (1837-1899)
- Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parmab. 1870ITnot in their usual nameBulgarian and Parmese Royal
- Archduchess Adelheid of Austriab. 1914ATnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria (1914–1971)
- Pia Zadorab. 1954USAmerican actress and singer
- Pia Sundhageb. 1960SESwedish association football player and manager
- Pia Mirandab. 1973AUAustralian actress
- Pia Wurtzbachb. 1989PHFilipino actress and beauty pageant titleholder
- Pia Miab. 1996USAmerican singer
- Pia Skrzyszowskab. 2001PLPolish athletics competitor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 105 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23K | #15 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23K | #184 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 17K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 14K | #157 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 12K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 11K | #370 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 3.8K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 2.3K | #221 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 2.3K | #121 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 45 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 24 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 18 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Pia come from?
- Latin origin; short form of Pia, meaning 'pious, dutiful'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Pia a male or female name?
- Pia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Pia?
- In the etymology graph, Piia is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Pia mean?
- In Spanish, second-person singular voseo imperative of piar
- How do you pronounce Pia?
- A machine transcription gives /pja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Pia have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Pia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pia most common?
- Pia is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 251 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pia?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 23,359 people named Pia, about 1 in 251 residents.
- How common is Pia compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Pia is the 154th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pia” — the 154th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.