Piso
loc · Latin script
Meaning: floor, ground (surface of the earth)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/piso/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Piso is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 526K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 102K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 282K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pis-O in PH Philippines.
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)
floor, ground (surface of the earth)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Piso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 282K | — | Pis-O | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 232 | 1 in 913K | 232 | Piso | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | 170 | 1 in 102K | 170 | — | 22 |
| CO Colombia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Piso | 27 |
| US United States | 162 | 1 in 2.1M | 174 | Piso | 93 |
| ES Spain | 95 | 1 in 526K | 95 | Piso | 33 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 640K | — | Piso | 4 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Piso 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 English, L. Calpurnius, Roman politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Pison [Pishon]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Italian, Variante di Pisu
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Portuguese, floor, level, story
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
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)
- Willem Pisob. 1611NLDutch physician and naturalist (1611–1678)
- Ion Pisob. 1928ROopera singer, former first soloist of Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca (1949-1960), of Romanian National Opera (1964-1968) and of New York Metropolitan Opera House (1965-1966). Former director at Oldenburg State Theatre.
- Ioan Pisob. 1944RORomanian historian and epigrapher
- Vincenzo Pisob. 1958ITItalian politician
- Guarino PisoITauthor (-1591)
- Robin PisoNLDutch keyboardist
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 232 | #32,514 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 174 | #108,494 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 170 | #12,200 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 162 | #109,258 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 155 | #106,477 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 95 | #28,522 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 95 | #28,449 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Piso mean, and where does it come from?
- floor, ground (surface of the earth) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Piso?
- A machine transcription gives /piso/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Piso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 387 people named Piso in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pis-o.
- Where is Piso most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Piso is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 102 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Piso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 232 people named Piso, about 1 in 913 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Piso?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pisoThe 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, “Piso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.