Entry № 8143 · Italian origin

Pia Pia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PEE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Pious (Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "pious (pia wurtzbach, miss universe 2015)".

Pia is from the Latin pia (feminine of pius) — "pious, devout, dutiful." Pia Wurtzbach (born 1989) — Filipino-German beauty queen; Miss Universe 2015 — her crowning is among the most-watched moments in pageant history because host Steve Harvey initially announced Miss Colombia (Ariadna Gutierrez) as winner, then corrected himself moments later, making Wurtzbach the actual Miss Universe. Third Filipina to win Miss Universe.

Pious (Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015) — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Pia
Transliteration
Pia
Pronunciation
/ ˈpiː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pia stands.

Pia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Pias before her.

Real people
Pia Wurtzbach
Miss Universe 2015.
born 1989
Pia Toscano
American singer.
born 1988
Pia Sundhage
Swedish football coach.
born 1960
Pia Mia
Guamanian-American singer.
born 1996
In fiction
Pia of Tolomei
Dante's Purgatorio.
1320

Names connected to Pia.

The number behind Pia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.