Pious
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/paɪəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pious is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pious itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6M (inferred from the name graph)
501 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pious 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 501 | 1 in 2.6M | 501 | Pious | 6 |
| ES Spain | 115as Payas | 1 in 435K | 115 | — | — |
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 133 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 41as Payas | 1 in 421K | 41 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
501 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Pious is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
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)
- Minerva Piousb. 1903USAmerican actress (1903-1979)
- Robert Savon Piousb. 1908USAmerican painter and illustrator (1908-1983)
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 655 | #798 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 501 | #9,161 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 133 | #132,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #14,128 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #236,240 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #23,065 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What are other forms of the name Pious?
- In the etymology graph, Piety is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pious?
- A machine transcription gives /paɪəs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pious have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 501 people named Pious, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pious.
- Where is Pious most common?
- Pious is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.6 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pious?
- In India, the national register counted 501 people named Pious, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piousThe 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, “Pious”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.