Pirié
surname · Latin script
Pirié is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mozambique than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the north-east, generally taken as another diminutive of Peter. John Pirre was recorded in Glasgow in 1550 and Adam Peirie was a tailor in Inverness, 1625.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 36Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 42K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mozambique (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pirie in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more.
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)From the north-east, generally taken as another diminutive of Peter. John Pirre was recorded in Glasgow in 1550 and Adam Peirie was a tailor in Inverness, 1625. Peerie, Scots ‘small’, seems a possible source but it is primarily an Orcadian word and there are no records of the name in early days in the northern isles.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Scottish Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pirié 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MZ Mozambique | #739 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Pirie | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1.4K | Pirie | 174 |
| US United States | — | 867 | 1 in 384K | 867 | Pirie | 214 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 1 | Pirie | 101 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Pirie | 108 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Pirie | 52 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pirié mean, and where does it come from?
- From the north-east, generally taken as another diminutive of Peter. John Pirre was recorded in Glasgow in 1550 and Adam Peirie was a tailor in Inverness, 1625. Recorded by Scottish Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Pirié have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Pirié in Mozambique, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pirie.
- How common is the name Pirié?
- In the United States, the national register counted 867 people named Pirié in 2010, about 1 in 384 thousand residents.
- How common is Pirié compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Pirié is the 739th most common surname of 2,021 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piri%C3%A9The 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, “Pirié” — the 739th most common surname in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.