Pitta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gallery, Florence, Italy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/pˈɪtɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pitta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 290K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 21K
- BRBrazil1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pitta 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
4,580 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Patta in IT Italy.
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)gallery, Florence, Italy
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pitta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 4,580 | 1 in 290K | 4.6K | Pitta | 92 |
| US United States | 3,899as Patti | 1 in 85K | 37K | Pitta | 97 |
| BR Brazil | 3,607 | 1 in 59K | 3.6K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 1,060as Patti | 1 in 43K | 1.1K | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 96K | 1 | Patta | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 365as Patte | 1 in 32K | 365 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 163 | 1 in 21K | 163 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 133as Patti | 1 in 63K | 133 | — | 1 |
4,580 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)Pitta 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, songbird
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Finnish, pitta (bird of the family Pittidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, bile
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( -e B ap. Izeta BHIzt2 ; H ), pita ( Lh ), pihitta ( Hb ). Pizca, pequeña cantidad . "Petite quantité" Hb . "Une légère parcelle d'une chose ou substance" H . Cf. ipitta. Oh! Jauna, ez dugu arrats arteko lanik izanen, gure diru pittarekin! Barb Leg 61.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, Pitas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Gaetano Pittab. 1857ITItalian writer and journalist (1857–1950)
- João Carlos da Silva Pitab. 1860PTnot in their usual namePortuguese physician
- Alfredo Pittab. 1875ITItalian writer
- Celso Pittab. 1946BRBrazilian politician (1946-2009)
- Eduardo Pittab. 1949PTPortuguese writer
- Olívio Pires Pittab. 1954BRBrazilian association football player
- Antonio Pittab. 1959ITItalian priest and Bible scholar (1959-2024)
- Gabriel Pittab. 1980BRBrazilian tennis player (1980-)
- Dennis Pittab. 1985USAmerican football player (born 1985)
- Isidro Pittab. 1999PYParaguayan footballer
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11K | #175 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 4.6K | #1,665 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.6K | #2,940 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 659 | #36,520 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 542 | #38,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 525 | #41,426 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 198 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 163 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 39 | #22,536 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #63,966 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Pitta mean, and where does it come from?
- gallery, Florence, Italy Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What are other forms of the name Pitta?
- In the etymology graph, Pita is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pitta?
- A machine transcription gives /pˈɪtɐ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Pitta have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Pitta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pitta.
- Where is Pitta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pitta is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pitta?
- In India, the national register counted 4,580 people named Pitta, about 1 in 290 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pitta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pittaThe 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, “Pitta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.