Piho

surname · Latin script

Meaning: the Pheasant tailed Jacana (Tringa chirurgus)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua), 2022

/piɦo̞/(machine-generated) Finnish · model-generated

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Piho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

  • FIFinland1 in 30K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

Finland (measured from records)

186 people

Record sources
4 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pi-Ho in TW Taiwan.

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)

the Pheasant tailed Jacana (Tringa chirurgus)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Where the surname Piho is found

(measured from records)

Piho 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 Piho is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland1861 in 30K186—1
SE Sweden71 in 1.5M7——
EE Estonia——179Piho2
TW Taiwan———Pi-Ho4
CK Cook Islands——10——

186 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua); the ee-stat-nimed register; 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Piho is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Pihô

34 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)

Piho 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 Czech, vocative singular of piha

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

  • In vot, palm (of the hand)

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

  • In Filipino, surely; certainly

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

  • In Cebuano, certain

    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)
19201930Evald Piho, b. 1923Arnold Piho, b. 1924Harri Piho, b. 1927
  • Evald Pihob. 1923EEEstonian caricaturist and sportsperson (1923-1974)
  • Arnold Pihob. 1924EEEstonian agricultural scientist (1924-1978)
  • Harri Pihob. 1927EEEstonian economist (1927-2024)

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)
FormalDear Ms Piho,
InformalHi Piho,

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Piho mean, and where does it come from?
the Pheasant tailed Jacana (Tringa chirurgus) Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
How do you pronounce Piho?
In Finnish /piɦo̞/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Piho?
In Finland, the national register counted about 186 people named Piho, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Piho most common?
Piho is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Piho?
In Finland, the national register counted 186 people named Piho, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.

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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, “Piho”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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