Given name & surname
Piedad
“a devout woman”
Piedad is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “a devout woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “a devout woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Piedad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 252
- 0 boys · 252 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,489 as a first name in 2020; 270 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Piedad’s family of names
Piedad has a conventional naming counterpart in Errukiñe. Piedad has a related form in Piedadd. Piedad has a related form in Piedade.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Piedad
- Piedad CórdobaColombian lawyer and politician (1955-2024)
- Piedad BonnettColombian playwright, poetborn 1951
- Tomasa Ortiz Real1842–1916
- Piedad de la CiervaSpanish scientist1913–2007
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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