Pì
surname · Latin script
Pì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: at, in, for, by, through, with.
- UYUruguay1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 23K
- ARArgentina1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pì itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 named Bí, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bi in VN Vietnam, 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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)at, in, for, by, through, with
Cited for this meaning 4
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
- Nordic Names
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pì 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.
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Pì 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 僻
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nmy, to recite
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In raw, iron.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vec, more
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)- Mi Pijib. 1636not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 85420
- Bi XiangshanQing dynasty person CBDB = 126251
- Bi WangyiQing dynasty person CBDB = 56172
- Mi Wangzounot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 85419
- Mi Pijinot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 355877
- Mi Xiangzhennot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 355878
- Mi Shinot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 164664
- Mi Yingqinot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 416978
- Mi Zhennot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 416979
- Mi Xiangshannot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 416980
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pì mean, and where does it come from?
- at, in, for, by, through, with Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Pì have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Bí in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pì most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pì is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.8 thousand people — even though Vietnam holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pì?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,142 people named Pì, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Pì compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Pì is the 82nd most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%ACThe 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, “Pì” — the 82nd most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.