Pia
Pia was given to 148 girls in 2025, #1,456 among girls’ names; 3,984 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,710 Americans named Pia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 8 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Pia is “a female given name from Latin.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pia?
#1,456 among girls’ names, 2025
Pia rose from #2,496 in 2015 to #1,456 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 40.9 to 92.1 per million.
158 babies in 2024, the peak
Pia peaked in 2024, when 158 girls were given it, #1,419 among girls’ names. The 148 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 148 | #1,456 | 92.1 |
| 2024 | 158 | #1,419 | 97.5 |
| 2023 | 152 | #1,460 | 94.7 |
| 2022 | 154 | #1,450 | 93.9 |
| 2021 | 111 | #1,826 | 67.6 |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,858 | 65.0 |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,009 | 57.2 |
| 2018 | 95 | #2,056 | 55.8 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,951 | 59.7 |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,926 | 59.3 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,496 | 40.9 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,530 | 39.7 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,379 | 43.9 |
| 2012 | 96 | #2,023 | 54.5 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,578 | 39.8 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,966 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,396 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,920 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,456 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,299 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,851 | 20.6 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,967 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,275 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,149 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,506 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,494 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,772 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,297 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,477 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,463 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,379 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,971 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,206 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,984 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,343 | 17.6 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,410 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,857 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,074 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,221 | 28.2 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,602 | 22.2 |
| 1985 | 70 | #1,674 | 40.7 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,259 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 79 | #1,470 | 47.3 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,013 | 30.7 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,334 | 25.8 |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,090 | 30.1 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,420 | 24.3 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,459 | 23.5 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,147 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,202 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,154 | 27.4 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,423 | 21.8 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,053 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,824 | 30.9 |
| 1971 | 72 | #1,454 | 43.3 |
| 1970 | 68 | #1,486 | 38.9 |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,679 | 30.8 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,824 | 26.2 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,579 | 31.5 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,728 | 25.4 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,143 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,937 | 20.1 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,406 | 13.5 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,936 | 18.3 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,985 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,356 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,813 | 18.8 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,782 | 18.9 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,977 | 15.2 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,041 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,616 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,430 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,345 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,813 | 16.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,781 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,318 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,132 | 7.0 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,926 | 2.8 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,723 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,722 | 6.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,440 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,467 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,310 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,922 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,286 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,354 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,309 | 5.8 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,461 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,010 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,849 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,083 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,109 | 9.2 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,713 | 12.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,361 | 15.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pia, and how old are they?
3,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 3,984 Americans ever recorded as Pia. The median Pia alive today is 21 years old; half are between 8 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 4,608 people named Pia (4,562 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,965 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 357 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 657 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 575 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 679 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,440 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Pia born?
The states with the most babies named Pia are Texas, New York and Florida, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,183 | 0.6× |
| New York | 18 | #890 | 2.5× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,045 | 0.8× |
| California | 13 | #1,722 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #704 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #740 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,356 | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 5 | #609 | 0.3× |
Where Pia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pia is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,946 babies since 1880, Pia is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 148 of their 255 babies (58%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pia and names like it
- Compare Pia and PippaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sPia peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pia since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Pia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Pia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Pia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.