Pyy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia, syn
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/pii/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pyy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 600K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,096 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Piy in MY Malaysia.
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)hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia, syn. Bonasa bonasia)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pyy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 1,096 | 1 in 5.1K | 1.1K | Pyy | 20 |
| SE Sweden | 17 | 1 in 600K | 17 | Pyy | 6 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Pyy | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Pyy | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Piy | 5 |
1,096 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Pyy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In olo, hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, hazel grouse
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)- Juho Pyyb. 1884FIFinnish politician
- Armas Pyyb. 1913FIFinnish association football player
- Juha Pyyb. 1963FIFinnish sprinter
- Sini Pyyb. 1992FIFinnish disabled athlete, sports skiing and biathlon, born 1992, sport clubs Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura and Rovaniemen Ampujat
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.1K | #1,753 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 495 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #27,742 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Pyy come from?
- hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia, syn. Bonasa bonasia) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pyy?
- A machine transcription gives /pii/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pyy mean?
- Recorded meaning: hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia, syn.
- In which country does Pyy have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Pyy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pyy.
- Where is Pyy most common?
- Pyy is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pyy?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,096 people named Pyy, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pyy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pyyThe 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, “Pyy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.