Piat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name of historical usage
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Piat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 145K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 365K
- ARArgentina1 in 669K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)
81 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
a male given name of historical usage
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Piat 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 81 | 1 in 145K | 81 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 68 | 1 in 669K | 68 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 15 | 1 in 3.3M | 15 | — | — |
| PL Poland | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | — | Piat | 6 |
81 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Piat 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 Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of piō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, genitive plural of päta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pms, dish, platter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sbl, scar
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Jean-Pierre Piatb. 1774FRFrench politician and officer (1774-1862)
- Frédéric-Eugène Piatb. 1827FRFrench sculptor
- Clodius Piatb. 1854FRFrench priest
- Louis Piatb. 1854FRFrench Occitan writer and lexicographer (1854-1942)
- Stéphane Joseph Piatb. 1899theologian (1899-1968)
- Jean Piatb. 1924FRFrench actor and author (1924–2018)
- Colette Piatb. 1927FRFrench crime writer
- Maurice Piatb. 1941MUMauritian Roman Catholic cardinal
- Philippe Piatb. 1942FRFrench association football player
- Yann Piatb. 1949FRFrench politician (1949–1994)
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 81 | #18,374 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 68 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Piat mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name of historical usage Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Piat?
- A machine transcription gives /pja/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Piat have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 81 people named Piat, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Piat most common?
- Piat is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 145 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Piat?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 81 people named Piat in 2008, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Piat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piatThe 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, “Piat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.