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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

23,359 people

Sources
221 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 251 (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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.

Where Pia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark—23,3591 in 25123K——
SE Sweden—23,1011 in 44223KPia41
FI Finland#38012,1481 in 45914KPia20
CL Chile#236≈9,000 est.≈1 in 2K242Pia116
PH Philippines—≈8,700 est.≈1 in 13K—Pia80
NO Norway—3,7541 in 1.5K11KPia25
SI Slovenia—2,3211 in 9062.3K—8
UY Uruguay#154≈750 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Pia41

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pia is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Pía, Piá, Pià, Pi-A, Pïa

  • Danish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Pía, Pïã, Pîâ

  • Finnish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Pìà, Piá, Pía

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, United States, Belgium

    Also written Pía, Pïa, Pîa, Pià, Piá

  • Italian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Pía, Pià, Piá, Piä, Pìà

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Pía, Piä, Piá

  • Hungarian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Switzerland, Hungary, Sweden

    Also written Pía, Piä

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Piá, Pía, Pià, Pĩa

  • Croatian given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, United States, Italy

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Czech

    Also written Piya, Пиа, Пия, Pía, Piá

75 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

180018501900195020002050Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, b. 1835Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein, b. 1837Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, b. 1870Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, b. 1914Pia Zadora, b. 1954Pia Sundhage, b. 1960Pia Miranda, b. 1973Pia Wurtzbach, b. 1989Pia Mia, b. 1996Pia Skrzyszowska, b. 2001

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)

InformalHola Pia,Hi Pia, (English)

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.

Official registers attesting Pia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—23K#15
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—23K#184
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202017K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—14K#157
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—12K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—11K#370
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20253.8K—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—2.3K#221
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20252.3K#121
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)202545—
SI SloveniaSURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register)202424—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)202118—

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).
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.
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 does the name Pia mean?
In Spanish, second-person singular voseo imperative of piar
What are other forms of the name Pia?
In the etymology graph, Piia is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Pia?
A machine transcription gives /pja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
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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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.

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