Pistoia
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Pistoia (a province of Tuscany, Italy)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pistoia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 173K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 420K
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
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, 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 Pistoya in AR Argentina and Pistóia in BR Brazil.
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)
Pistoia (a province of Tuscany, Italy)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pistoia 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 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Pistoia | 74 |
| AR Argentina | 263 | 1 in 173K | 263 | Pistoya | 37 |
| BR Brazil | 146 | 1 in 1.5M | 146 | Pistóia | 34 |
| US United States | 117 | 1 in 2.8M | 117 | — | 23 |
| FR France | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 8 | Pistoia | 57 |
| CH Switzerland | 20 | 1 in 420K | 20 | — | 2 |
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: the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francesco Pistojab. 1838ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician (1838–1927)
- Ernesto Pistoiab. 1857ITItalian politician (1857-1932)
- Umberto Pistoiab. 1884ITItalian politician
- Alessandro Pistoiab. 1935ITItalian theologian (1935-2005)
- Francesco Pistoiab. 1938ITItalian politician (born 1938)
- Alessandro Pistoiab. 1948ITItalian agronomist (born 1948)
- Nicola Pistoiab. 1954ITItalian actor, film director, screenwriter and author
- Mariana Pistoiab. 1998BRBrazilian fencer
- Maëlleb. 2001FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer
- Alessandro PistoiaITItalian zootechnician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 263 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 146 | #47,410 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 117 | #144,270 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 104 | #146,011 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 20 | #36,564 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Pistoia mean, and where does it come from?
- Pistoia (a province of Tuscany, Italy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pistoia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Pistoia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pistoia.
- How common is the name Pistoia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 263 people named Pistoia, about 1 in 173 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/pistoiaThe 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, “Pistoia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.