Pita

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: century plant (Agave americana)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/piːtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pita is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 2K(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 4.8K
  • UYUruguay1 in 5.4K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

9,408 people

Sources
193 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A piece of pita bread; a flatbread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Pita is read(measured from records)

Pita is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Hindi46%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Pita in Hindi.

  • Spanish27%

    century plant (Agave americana)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Abreviación de Guadalupita/Gualupita, diminutivo de Guadalupe.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English9.3%

    A piece of pita bread; a flatbread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese9.0%

    pita (a type of slightly leavened flatbread)

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Pita 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.

Where Pita is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#8429,4081 in 23K9.4KPita112
EC Ecuador#4158,4761 in 2K8.5KPita41
ES Spain—4,7671 in 10K4.8KPita131
US United States—2,3281 in 143K2.3KPita193
VE Venezuela—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 13K—Pita33
PT Portugal#238≈2,200 est.≈1 in 4.8K—Pita93
UY Uruguay#8866241 in 5.4K624Pita33

9,408 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pita is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname57 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Chinese

    Also written Pati, Pitha, Pathy, Pota, Påtí

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Piță, Pița, Pítä, Pità

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Peru, Ecuador

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Pitá

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Piţa, Pītā, Pità, Píta

  • Sinhala surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Peru, Sri Lanka

    Also written Pitu, පිට, Patu, පට

  • Ukrainian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Czechia, Poland

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Піта, Пита, Píta, Пйта, Píťa

  • Arabic surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Egypt, United States, Spain

    Also written Pîtá, Pîtà, Pïta, Pitá, Pița

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pita is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In pi, vocative singular of pitar (“father”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, pita (piece of pita bread; a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1400160018002000Maria Pita, b. 1565Juan Carlos Alonso, b. 1886Leandro Pita, b. 1898José Manuel Pita Andrade, b. 1922Carlos Orejuela, b. 1980Carlos Pita, b. 1984José Ciprian Alfonso, b. 1984Dino Pita, b. 1988Liván Moinelo, b. 1995Cristian Pita, b. 1995

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)

Formalआदरणीय श्री Pita जी,Respected Pita ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Pita जी,Hi Pita, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 47 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Pita
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020151#30,089
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020140#30,089
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—40#33,463
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202231—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20076—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19495—

Reference works 2

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 Pita come from?
A piece of pita bread; a flatbread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Pita?
In the etymology graph, Pitta is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Pita?
A machine transcription gives /piːtə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Pita mean?
In Spanish, century plant (Agave americana)
In which country does Pita have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Pita, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pita.
Where is Pita most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pita is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pita?
In Brazil, the national register counted 9,408 people named Pita, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
How common is Pita compared with other names?
In Brazil, Pita is the 842nd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Pita” — the 842nd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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