Pia

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Pia

By the numbers

Total US births

3,984

Estimated living today

3,700

Median age today

20

Peak year

2024

Best rank

1,414th

Rank in 2025

1,452nd

First recorded

1908

How old the living Pias are

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,984 babies given the name since 1908, about 3,700 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 250 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Pias

• Pia Wurtzbach (born 1989)Filipino actress and beauty pageant titleholder
• Pia Cramling (born 1963)Swedish chess player
• Pia Sundhage (born 1960)Swedish association football player and manager
• Pia Kjærsgaard (born 1947)Danish politician
• Pia Zadora (born 1954)American actress and singer
• Pia Degermark (born 1949)Swedish actress
• Pia Maria (born 2003)Austrian singer-songwriter
• Pia Mia (born 1996)American singer

People named Pia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Pia is most common

• NY696
• CA472
• TX220
• FL142
• NJ116
• PA55
• MA40
• IL22
• AZ20
• CT16

Relative to how many babies each state records, Pia is most concentrated in New York (4.8×), California (2.5×), New Jersey (2.2×), Florida (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular girls’ names the year Pia peaked:

• Olivia
• Emma
• Amelia
• Charlotte
• Mia
• Sophia

All the names of 2024

Pia elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Pia: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Pia is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.05% of children were given it – 54 of them.

Pia: rank by region

In 2025, Pia was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2025, Pia was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Pia appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (164th) and Brussels-Capital Region (194th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Pia by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Pia among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Pia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 738 women called Pia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 18 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 34 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.