Pis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: initialism of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; Polish right-wing political party, Law and Justice
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 187K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 132K
- CZCzechia1 in 268K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
290 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
initialism of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; Polish right-wing political party, Law and Justice
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pis 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.
290 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Pis 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 Spanish, pee, wee
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In qfa-yen-pro, tail (of birds) (Werner 1, 320 also "Rockzipfel")
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In qfa-yen-pro, still, so far
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Lithuanian, third-person singular future of pisti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Pijin.
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 243 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 149 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 149 | #21,105 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 141 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 141 | #22,648 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 137 | #21,995 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 137 | #21,936 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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 Pis mean, and where does it come from?
- initialism of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; Polish right-wing political party, Law and Justice Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pis?
- A machine transcription gives /pis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Pis have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 290 people named Pis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pis most common?
- Pis is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 132 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pis?
- In Poland, the national register counted 290 people named Pis in 2026, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pisThe 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, “Pis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.