Pietà

Locally spelled Pieta in US United States.

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.

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Pietà is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

• Italian78%

  pity, compassion, godliness

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German6.7%

  pietà (sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English5.6%

  A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Pietà is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Pieta, Pięta, Píetá, Piéta, Pieta'

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Piéta, Pieta, Pięta

4 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.

Pietà is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In lmo, pity

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Croatian, pov. umj. u kršćanskoj ikonografiji, prikaz ožalošćene Majke Božje s mrtvim tijelom Isusa na krilu ( Avignonska P. u Parizu, Michelangelova skulptura u bazilici Sv. Petra u Rimu)

  as a word·Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

• In Romanian, PIETÁ s. f. Pictură sau sculptură care o reprezintă pe Madona ținându-și fiul mort pe genunchi sau în brațe. [Pr.: pi-e-].

  as a word·DEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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.

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Pietà come from?

pietà (sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What does the name Pietà mean?

In Italian, pity, compassion, godliness

Which countries have the most people with the surname Pietà?

In the United States, the national register counted about 196 people named Pietà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pieta. After it come Italy, Poland, Norway and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Pietà most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pietà is densest in Norway — about 1 in 273 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Pietà?

In the United States, the national register counted 196 people named Pietà in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.