Peia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fetter (object used to bind a person or animal by its legs)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pʰiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 429K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.2M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 429K (inferred from the name graph)
100 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
fetter (object used to bind a person or animal by its legs)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peia 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.
100 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Ninel Peiab. 1969ROpolitician
- Ion PeiaRORomanian politician from Obreja, Caraș-Severin County
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 100 | #63,366 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 43 | #50,087 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43 | #49,226 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 13 | #43,457 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #89,111 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Peia mean, and where does it come from?
- fetter (object used to bind a person or animal by its legs) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Peia?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰiə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Peia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 100 people named Peia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peia.
- Where is Peia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peia is densest in Finland — about 1 in 429 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Peia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 100 people named Peia, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Peia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peiaThe 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, “Peia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.