Pia
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin origin; short form of Pia, meaning 'pious, dutiful'.
- SESweden1 in 442◐
- FIFinland1 in 459
- CLChile1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈74K ●
- Sources
- 204 ●
- 1 in 251 ◐
across 11 countries
235K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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●
Latin origin; short form of Pia, meaning 'pious, dutiful'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #441 | 177,453 | 69K rec. | — | 1.2K | Pia | 100 |
| CL Chile | #223 | 65,374 | 4.5K rec. | — | 242 | Pia | 110 |
| DK Denmark | — | 23,359 | — | 1 in 251 | 23K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | #546 | 23,101△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 442 | 23K | Pia | 41 |
| FI Finland | — | 12,148△ | 287 rec. | 1 in 459 | 14K | Pia | 21 |
| PE Peru | — | 8,332 | 6.4K rec. | — | — | Pia | 52 |
| PH Philippines | — | 8,140 | 6.5K rec. | — | — | Pia | 79 |
| UY Uruguay | #195 | 7,029 | 4.6K rec. | — | — | Pia | 41 |
| US United States | — | 4,562 | 5.8K rec. | 1 in 73K | 4.6K | Pia | 204 |
| FR France | — | 3,770 | 0 rec. | 1 in 18K | 3.8K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 3,754△ | 110 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Pia | 26 |
| MX Mexico | — | 3,463 | 120K rec. | — | — | Pia | 82 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish267K39%
- Danish103K15%
- German86K12%
- Finnish63K9%
- English56K8%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 266,870 | 39% |
| Danish | 102,638 | 15% |
| German | 85,689 | 12% |
| Finnish | 63,093 | 9% |
| English | 55,510 | 8% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Pia 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 French, From Latin pius; means “pious, devoted”.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Latin: ‘pious’. See Italian supplement. R Radegund(e) 2 Germanic: ‘counsel for battle’. Rafael $ German spelling of Raphael, name of one of the archangels.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
From the feminine form of Latin pius ‘pious’. Masculine form: Pio.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Spanish, second-person singular voseo imperative of piar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, a female given name, popular recently
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1910 | 5 |
| 1914 | 7 |
| 1915 | 9 |
| 1916 | 7 |
| 1917 | 7 |
| 1918 | 9 |
| 1920 | 7 |
| 1922 | 7 |
| 1923 | 7 |
| 1924 | 6 |
| 1925 | 10 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1934 | 7 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1949 | 12 |
| 1950 | 19 |
| 1951 | 15 |
| 1952 | 31 |
| 1953 | 21 |
| 1954 | 21 |
| 1955 | 19 |
| 1956 | 29 |
| 1957 | 31 |
| 1958 | 38 |
| 1959 | 38 |
| 1960 | 26 |
| 1961 | 35 |
| 1962 | 36 |
| 1963 | 26 |
| 1964 | 38 |
| 1965 | 31 |
| 1966 | 43 |
| 1967 | 52 |
| 1968 | 43 |
| 1969 | 52 |
| 1970 | 68 |
| 1971 | 72 |
| 1972 | 47 |
| 1973 | 40 |
| 1974 | 32 |
| 1975 | 40 |
| 1976 | 39 |
| 1977 | 25 |
| 1978 | 36 |
| 1979 | 39 |
| 1980 | 50 |
| 1981 | 43 |
| 1982 | 52 |
| 1983 | 79 |
| 1984 | 44 |
| 1985 | 70 |
| 1986 | 38 |
| 1987 | 49 |
| 1988 | 33 |
| 1989 | 26 |
| 1990 | 32 |
| 1991 | 33 |
| 1992 | 20 |
| 1993 | 25 |
| 1994 | 13 |
| 1995 | 18 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 24 |
| 1998 | 20 |
| 1999 | 32 |
| 2000 | 27 |
| 2001 | 21 |
| 2002 | 31 |
| 2003 | 45 |
| 2004 | 36 |
| 2005 | 38 |
| 2006 | 50 |
| 2007 | 48 |
| 2008 | 41 |
| 2009 | 49 |
| 2010 | 58 |
| 2011 | 70 |
| 2012 | 96 |
| 2013 | 77 |
| 2014 | 71 |
| 2015 | 73 |
| 2016 | 105 |
| 2017 | 103 |
| 2018 | 95 |
| 2019 | 96 |
| 2020 | 105 |
| 2021 | 111 |
| 2022 | 154 |
| 2023 | 152 |
| 2024 | 158 |
| 2025 | 148 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 94 years between 1908–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Archduchess Maria Anna of Austriab. 1835ATnot in their usual nameAustrian Archduchess (1835–1840)
- Princess Sophie of Liechtensteinb. 1837ATnot in their usual nameLiechtenstein princess (1837-1899)
- Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parmab. 1870ITnot in their usual nameBulgarian and Parmese Royal
- Archduchess Adelheid of Austriab. 1914ATnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria (1914–1971)
- Pia Zadorab. 1954USAmerican actress and singer
- Pia Sundhageb. 1960SESwedish association football player and manager
- Pia Mirandab. 1973AUAustralian actress
- Pia Wurtzbachb. 1989PHFilipino actress and beauty pageant titleholder
- Pia Miab. 1996USAmerican singer
- Pia Skrzyszowskab. 2001PLPolish athletics competitor
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●
Attested in 102 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23K | #15 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23K | #184 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 17K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 14K | #313 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 12K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 11K | #370 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 5K | #81 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.6K | #4,165 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.8K | #167 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 3.8K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 2.3K | #221 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 2.3K | #121 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 988 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pia?
- We estimate roughly 74 thousand people bear Pia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pia have the most bearers?
- Pia is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled pia.
- Where is Pia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pia is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 251 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Pia compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Pia is the 441st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- Is Pia a male or female name?
- Pia 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 Pia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Latin origin; short form of Pia, meaning 'pious, dutiful'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pia” — the 441st most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.