Pier
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pjeɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pier is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 383K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.3K
- NLNetherlands1 in 12K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma reduzida de Piero
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pier is read(measured from records)
Pier is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish30%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pier in Spanish.
- Italian26%
forma reduzida de Piero
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- English21%
A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pier in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Pier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 2 | Pier | 90 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,475 | 1 in 12K | 1.5K | Pier | 21 |
| PE Peru | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Pier | 29 |
| US United States | 868 | 1 in 383K | 2.2K | Pier | 260 |
| ES Spain | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 157K | 44 | Pier | 24 |
| SE Sweden | 229 | 1 in 45K | 229 | — | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | 67 | 1 in 51K | 67 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Pier 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 German, from ON Düren; related form Pierer.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In enm, alternative form of pere (“peer”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pieri
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of piō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Peter Damianb. 1007ITnot in their usual nameeleventh-century Benedictine monk
- Piero Soderinib. 1450FRnot in their usual nameItalian politician (1450–1522)
- Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsib. 1460ITItalian artist (1460–1528)
- Peter Candidb. 1548BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter and graphic designer (1548-1628)
- Pier Francesco Molab. 1612CHSwiss painter (1612-1666)
- Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambinib. 1910ITItalian writer (1910–1965)
- Pier Giacomo Pisonib. 1928ITItalian historian (1928–1991)
- Pier Ferdinando Casinib. 1955ITItalian politician (born 1955)
- Antonio Panzerib. 1955ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician
- Pier Silvio Berlusconib. 1969ITItalian entrepreneur in the media business
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 61 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.5K | #827 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 942 | #2,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 447 | #13,788 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 421 | #13,788 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 229 | #4,753 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 126 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 67 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 59 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 2 | #4,445 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Pier come from?
- forma reduzida de Piero Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- Is Pier a male or female name?
- Pier is a male 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 Pier?
- In the etymology graph, Peter, Pedro and Pierre are forms of the same name in other languages; Piet is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Pier?
- A machine transcription gives /pjeɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Pier mean?
- In English, A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
- In which country does Pier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Pier in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pier.
- How common is the name Pier?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,475 people named Pier, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pierThe 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, “Pier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.