Piras
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: a surname from Sardinian
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/piras/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Piras is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.5K
- BEBelgium1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular present indicative of pirar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Piras is read(measured from records)
Piras is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Italian36%
a surname from Sardinian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
sobrenome sardo de piras, pera; indica produtor e vendedor de peras
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Piras in French.
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Piras in English.
- Spanish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Piras in Spanish.
- Portuguese8.9%
second-person singular present indicative of pirar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Piras counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Piras is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In poz-oce-pro, immature stage of coconut or areca nut (?)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In map-pro, roe, eggs of fish or crustacean
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ckv, roe (as of crabs or shrimp)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Raffaele Pirasb. 1865ITItalian Catholic bishop (1865-1911)
- Bernard Pirasb. 1942FRFrench politician (1942-2016)
- Paolo Pirasb. 1951ITItalian association football player
- Antonio Pirasb. 1956ITItalian writer
- Rinaldo Pirasb. 1963ITItalian sculptor (1963-2001)
- Annalisa Pirasb. 1966ITItalian journalist, film director and communications advisor
- Michele Pirasb. 1972ITItalian politician
- Gian Pyresb. 1973GBnot in their usual nameBritish musician
- Gaia Pirasb. 1983ITactress
- Mattia Pirasb. 1992ITItalian footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 330 | #5,049 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 312 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 310 | #5,312 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 240 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 214 | #5,900 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 203 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 169 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 169 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 162 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 76 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 72 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Piras come from?
- second-person singular present indicative of pirar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Piras?
- A machine transcription gives /piras/ (IPA) for Italian.
- What does the name Piras mean?
- In Italian, a surname from Sardinian
- In which country does Piras have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Piras in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled piras.
- How common is the name Piras?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 312 people named Piras, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Piras?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pirasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Piras”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.