Pía

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Pia in AR Argentina, CL Chile, SE Sweden and 20 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Pía is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name580 records spelled Pía16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Australia

  Languages: German, English, Dutch

  Also written Pia, Piá, Pià, Pi-A, Pïa

• Lao given name197 records spelled Pía10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Chile, United States

  Also written Pia, Pìa, Piä, Pīa, Pìà

• a separate given name116 records spelled Pía5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom

  Also written Pia, Piá, Pià, Pĩa

• French given name43 records spelled Pía10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Italy

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Pia, Pïa, Pîa, Pià, Piã

• Italian given name32 records spelled Pía9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, Spain

  Also written Pia, Pià, Piá, Piä, Pîa

• Russian given name25 records spelled Pía16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Finland, Italy, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Pia, Пиа, Пія, Піа, Piat

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Pía 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.

• Devota

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In jpx-pro, 1 room, place (in a dwelling) 2 place, surroundings

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In Icelandic, maidservant

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In roa-leo, foot

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Galician, sink

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 86 years between 1924–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Lourdes Alcortab. 1951PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
• Mae de la Concha García-Mauriñob. 1954ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
• Pía Barrosb. 1956CLChilean writer
• Pía Uribelarreab. 1957ARArgentinian actor
• Pía Guzmán Menab. 1957CLChilean politician
• Pía Riggirozzib. 1971GBresearcher
• María Pía Copellob. 1977PEPeruvian television presenter
• Pia Leónb. 1986PEPeruvian chef
• Pia Wurtzbachb. 1989PHFilipino actress and beauty pageant titleholder
• Pía CastroARArgentine actress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 182 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pía?

We estimate roughly 74 thousand people bear Pía (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Pía have the most bearers?

Pía is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled pia.

Where is Pía most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pía is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 251 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Pía compared with other names?

In Argentina, Pía is the 441st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Pía a male or female name?

Pía is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Pía mean?

Recorded meaning: piha (bird)