Pi
loc · Latin script
Meaning: pi (name of the Greek letter Π, π)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pi is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
- PKPakistan
- IDIndonesia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pi (name of the Greek letter Π, π)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | — | Pi | 60 |
| ID Indonesia | — | — | Pi | 61 |
| PK Pakistan | — | — | Pi | 9 |
| KR South Korea | — | 7.2K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 2.1K | — | 11 |
| US United States | — | 1.3K | — | 46 |
| BR Brazil | — | 622 | — | — |
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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Pi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, rim, V. to make or grow hard, to harden; to parch, scorch; ne ho apirim, his skin is getting hard, said of a baby of 3 or 4 months ; ode, ntgrnmo no ho ap., the outside of the yam or the sweet potato has become black (in the ground); gd^ a eda gyam' na ogya pi nni ho pirim ; gd^ no ap., the yam has become hard over the fire (in boil- ing or roasting), pr. 1550, — gd6 mmeh yiye a, epirim, wototo a
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, a, pi, m-, back-room, chamber, a small room for sleeping or retirement, for keeping treasures or stores, store-room, tcarehouse; syn. pumpunu, pakusn; gener. opposite to asa (on the other side of the yard); odi (ohene) pia (== of we ohene nneema so wo ne fi), he is (the king's) chamberlain; odi guadifo yi pia, he.is the steward of this merchant
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In cdo, tion ； *pidh, (《(5, the small wooden pieces with which the laths are interlaced ； ,pidJi、 sioh^ (《m， a section of lath wall ； Jcang pidhy neighboring, the next door.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In Akan, a. much, many. — adv. much, very much. — F. pi n'ara, many, very many, Mt 3,7. 33,23. - syn. bfebre, ]p^wi, ddmankSma
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In cdo, \pi < to', used as a diuretic: < » COM., \pi iTnwai ^iv, castor piiiA oil ― is used in red stamp- ing-ink.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Pi Rixiub. 830CNTang dynasty poet
- Bi Shengb. 1000CNnot in their usual nameinventor and printer (990-1052)
- Francisco Pi y Margallb. 1824ESSpanish politician (1824–1901)
- Pi Chun-deukb. 1910KRSouth Korean writer
- Chin Hanb. 1938CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and director (b. 1938)
- Bi Feiyub. 1964CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer
- Ot Pib. 1970ESSpanish mountain bike trials rider
- Pi Hongyanb. 1979CNFrench-Chinese badminton player
- Bi Ganb. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese director and writer (born 1989)
- Kenneth Bib. 2000CNnot in their usual nameCanadian film director, screenwriter, actor and film editor (born 1967)
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 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS — 2015 census surnames | 2015 | 7.2K | #94 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.1K | #2,294 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.1K | #2,294 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,762 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 718 | #30,645 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 622 | #13,995 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 216 | #25,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 149 | #25,807 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 25 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Pi mean, and where does it come from?
- pi (name of the Greek letter Π, π) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pi have the most bearers?
- Pi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled pi.
What do you want to know about Pi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piThe 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, “Pi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.