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Pia

#1,456 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Pius

Pia has been given to 3,984 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #1,456 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 158 recorded.

Babies named Pia, 2025

1 in 22,400

Pia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Pius

Latin

What Pia means

Pia is a feminine form of Pius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pia → Pius. The family’s meaning is “pious”, recorded in Latin with the source elements pius.

Origin, language, and formation

Pia is used in English, Cebuano, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pius and Piia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Pia is pronounced /ˈpi.aː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,984 girls were recorded with the name Pia between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 158 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,419 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,858 in 2020 to #1,456 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,496 in 2015 to #1,456 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,400
148 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,456
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,527 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,527 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pia was born before 2002 — so the typical Pia is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,859
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (844).

Is Pia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−37
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+402
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,040
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.7%
Peak was 2024 (158)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,419
2024

Where Pia is used

Across 2016–2025, Pia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 12,265 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 5,882
  2. 2Florida1 in 7,692
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 9,091
  4. 4California1 in 10,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 10,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 12,500
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  8. 8Arizona1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Pia around the world

Where Pia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1986–2025
    #273
    in 2025
  • France
    1905–2025
    #200
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #126
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Pia

People whose public names include Pia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Pia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Pia. Linked forms have their own page here.

BiaPiiaCaliopia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Pia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,456
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 402
Best rank ever
#1,419
2024
Peak year
2024
158 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,984
Count in 2025
148

Names similar to Pia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Pia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Pia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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