Piet

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Piet is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. In Dutch, recorded as VIP, important person.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.7K
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 4.8K

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.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈30,000 people, est.

Sources
154 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

VIP, important person

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

How Piet is read(measured from records)

Piet is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.

  • Dutch48%

    VIP, important person

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English23%

    The magpie.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Dutch form of Peter; 'a stone or rock'

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • German7.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Piet in German.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Piet 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.

Where Piet is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#308≈30,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Piet51
NL Netherlands#1066,3581 in 2.7K6.3KPiet154
BE Belgium#751≈2,400 est.≈1 in 4.8K90Piet102
DE Germany—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 51K8Piet114
GH Ghana—≈270 est.≈1 in 111K—Piet5
DK Denmark—1591 in 37K159—2
NA Namibia—≈120 est.≈1 in 23K3—8

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the de-munich-vornamen register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Piet is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium

    Also written Piët, Pie͏̈t

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Piët, Pìet, Piết

  • Danish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Piët

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Piët, Pie͏̈t

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, South Africa

    Also written Piët

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, South Africa, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Pïêt

43 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Piet 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 French, de (Le) Piet, nom de plusieurs localités du sud-ouest de la France.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • Low German, Dutch, and Flemish form of PETER . Variant: Dutch: Pieter .

    as a word

  • In Afrikaans, a diminutive of the male given name Pieter, equivalent to English Pete

    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)

1400160018002000Piet Pieterszoon Hein, b. 1577Petrus Jacobus Joubert, b. 1834Piet Cronjé, b. 1836Piet Mondrian, b. 1872Piet Hein, b. 1905Piet de Jong, b. 1915Piet Kraak, b. 1921Piet Steenkamp, b. 1925Piet Keizer, b. 1943Piet Velthuizen, b. 1986

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 40 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Piet
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—6.3K#322
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.7K#908
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—159#1,049
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—75#6,607
DE GermanyStadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen20208—
DE GermanyStadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene20207—
NA NamibiaECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates20253#26
DE GermanyStadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene20253#1
DE GermanyStadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen2025——
NL NetherlandsBabynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020)———

Reference works 5

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 Piet mean, and where does it come from?
VIP, important person Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Piet have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Piet in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled piet.
Is Piet a male or female name?
Piet is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Piet?
In the etymology graph, Peter, Pedro and Pierre are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Pieter and Petrus.
How common is the name Piet?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6,358 people named Piet, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
How common is Piet compared with other names?
In South Africa, Piet is the 308th most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.

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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, “Piet” — the 308th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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