Pija
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pija is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 251as Pia(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 442as Pia
- FIFinland1 in 459as Pia
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 251 (inferred from the name graph)
23,359 named Pia
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark, as Pia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pia in SE Sweden, FI Finland, NO Norway and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | — | 23,359as Pia | 1 in 251 | 23K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 23,101as Pia | 1 in 442 | 23K | Pia | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 12,148as Pia | 1 in 459 | 14K | Pia | 4 |
| US United States | — | 4,608as Pia | 1 in 72K | 4.6K | Pia | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 3,754as Pia | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Pia | 7 |
| SI Slovenia | #271 | 2,321as Pia | 1 in 906 | 2.3K | Pia | 28 |
23,359 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Pija 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 men, v., to dig, to loosen the soil as in tillage, to plough
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Spanish, female equivalent of pijo (“snob”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, third-person singular present of pijać
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, definite nominative singular of pije
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pmf, sun-dried meat
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)
- Pija Lindenbaumb. 1955SEauthor and illustrator
- Pija Brodnikb. 2000SISlovene soprano
- Pija Kovacicb. 2000SISlovene association football player
- Pija Frešerb. 2004SISlovene association football player
- Pija RepSIresearcher
- Pija RežekSIresearcher
- Pija ReiningerDEGerman association football player
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 395 | #692 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 390 | #346 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 382 | #348 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 376 | #344 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 368 | #346 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 363 | #346 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 359 | #344 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 350 | #345 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 344 | #342 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 340 | #339 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 328 | #344 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 312 | #357 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- In which country does Pija have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Pia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pija most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Pija itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Denmark's: the national register counts about 1 in 251 people named Pia.
- How common is the name Pija?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 23,359 people named Pia, about 1 in 251 residents.
- How common is Pija compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Pija is the 271st most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pijaThe 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, “Pija” — the 271st most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.