Pit
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pit is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- NLNetherlands
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
de vita, vie ou de уйо, éviter. Fête : 16 (29) mai, 15 (28) juin. Vite ou Guy est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 12 juin, 31 mars.
Sources 2
- Russian Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pit counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | listed | Pit | 92 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Pit | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 14 | Pit | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 818 | Pit | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Pit | 19 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bi Shengb. 1000CNnot in their usual nameinventor and printer (990-1052)
- Pit Corderb. 1918GBlanguage scholar from England (1918-1990)
- Pit Krügerb. 1934DEGerman actor (1934-2003)
- Chin Hanb. 1938CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and director (b. 1938)
- Pit Clausenb. 1962DEGerman judge and politician
- Bi Feiyub. 1964CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer
- Pit Arne Pietzb. 1969CHSwiss film actor
- Pit Bukowskib. 1988DEGerman actor
- Bi Ganb. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese director and writer (born 1989)
- Kenneth Bib. 2000CNnot in their usual nameCanadian film director, screenwriter, actor and film editor (born 1967)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 818 | #2,172 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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
- In which country does Pit have the most bearers?
- Pit is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled pit.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pitThe 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, “Pit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.