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Pietra

Girls' name

Stone, rock, through Pietro

Pietra has been given to 182 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 2018, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Pietra, 2024

1 in 304,000

Pietra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pietra: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, rock, through Pietro

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pietra means

Pietra belongs to the name family reached through Pietra → Pietro → Pietro. Its meaning is “stone, rock”.

Origin, language, and formation

Pietra is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pietro.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 182 girls were recorded with the name Pietra between 1968 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2018; its best national rank was #7,256 in 2019.

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 Pietra?

Pietra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 304,000
11 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 147,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
210,642 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pietra 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 2024 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 210,642 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pietra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pietras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pietra was born before 2016 — so the typical Pietra is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
182
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.6% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Pietra 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (16)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,256
2019

Spellings of Pietra

Pietra is not the most common spelling — Sierra is, with 45.6% against Pietra's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Pietra around the world

Where Pietra 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
    2008–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    2013–2022
    #7,764
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1970–2000
    #727
    in 2000

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

Pietra 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
#7,256
2019
Peak year
2018
16 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
182
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pietra

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

PiercePiersonPieperPiedadPierrePierraPierinaChaitraDeetraPieraKeitraMitraDemitraNetraLanitraAnetraPierAstraLaketraKenetraElektraNakshatraPietrinaKetra

Sibling names for Pietra

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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