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Piedad

Girls' name

Mercy, piety

Piedad has been given to 252 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Piedad, 2008

1 in 786,000

Piedad over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Piedad: meaning, origin, and history

Mercy, piety

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Piedad means

Piedad means “mercy, piety”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Piedad is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /pje.ˈðað/ for Piedad.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Piedad is pronounced /pjeˈdad/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 252 girls were recorded with the name Piedad between 1915 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1923; its best national rank was #2,877 in 1923.

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 Piedad?

Piedad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Piedad 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 2008 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Piedad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Piedads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Piedad was born before 1942 — so the typical Piedad is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
115
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Choose a decade

1920s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Piedad 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (12)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,877
1923

Where Piedad is used

Across 1910–2025, Piedad was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 1,456,116 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Piedad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Piedad around the world

Where Piedad 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.

  • France
    1925–1969
    #1,674
    in 1969

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Piedad by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,877
1923
Peak year
1923
12 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
252
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Piedad

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

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Sibling names for Piedad

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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