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Piet

“rock, stone”

masculineLatin script

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Origin: Dutch
5 language contexts: French German Dutch +2 more
Follow the evidence: 12 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Piet

Piet is a masculine given name documented in French, German, Dutch and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Dutch Piet. It is a form of Petrus, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “rock, stone”.

2 source accounts

Dutch origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “rock, stone”

From Dutch Piet.

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: PetrusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia: Piet (given name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

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Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedgr. Πέτρος

gr. Πέτρος

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Piet is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

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Across borders

countries in our sources

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5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

France

Language records

Documented as a given name in French.

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4 of 10 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Piet

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 2; births; Rank #1,916
Peak year: 2018; 10 births

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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Piet in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	2	967	observed
2001	1	1,158	observed
2002	1	1,220	observed
2003	2	1,020	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	1	1,331	observed
2006	2	1,149	observed
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	1	1,484	observed
2010	1	1,531	observed
2011	4	1,032	observed
2012	3	1,205	observed
2013	7	851	observed
2014	5	1,004	observed
2015	3	1,296	observed
2016	1	1,771	observed
2017	2	1,571	observed
2018	10	710	observed
2019	3	1,366	observed
2020	4	1,221	observed
2021	2	1,684	observed
2022	3	1,411	observed
2023	3	1,403	observed
2024	1	1,925	observed
2025	2	1,916	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Piet” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

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04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Piet— “stone”
_Piet_, _m._ _Dutch_, Gr. stone, 108
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Piet Mondrian
1872–1944
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Piet de Jong
1915–2016
prime minister of the Netherlands (1915–2016)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Piet Hein
1905–1996
20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet (1905–1996)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Piet Keizer
1943–2017
Dutch footballer (1943–2017)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Piet Schrijvers
1946–2022
Dutch association football player (1946–2022)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Piet with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms9

Wikidata Q1439952CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: PetrusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia: Piet (given name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: PietjeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-Piet.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Piet.oggCC-BY-SA-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Piet

2 source accounts

Dutch origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “rock, stone”

From Dutch Piet.

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: PetrusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia: Piet (given name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedgr. Πέτρος

gr. Πέτρος

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Piet is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Piet’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

France

Language records

Documented as a given name in French.

Explore France

4 of 10 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Piet

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 2; births; Rank #1,916
Peak year: 2018; 10 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Piet in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	2	967	observed
2001	1	1,158	observed
2002	1	1,220	observed
2003	2	1,020	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	1	1,331	observed
2006	2	1,149	observed
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	1	1,484	observed
2010	1	1,531	observed
2011	4	1,032	observed
2012	3	1,205	observed
2013	7	851	observed
2014	5	1,004	observed
2015	3	1,296	observed
2016	1	1,771	observed
2017	2	1,571	observed
2018	10	710	observed
2019	3	1,366	observed
2020	4	1,221	observed
2021	2	1,684	observed
2022	3	1,411	observed
2023	3	1,403	observed
2024	1	1,925	observed
2025	2	1,916	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Piet— “stone”
_Piet_, _m._ _Dutch_, Gr. stone, 108
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Piet Mondrian
1872–1944
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Piet de Jong
1915–2016
prime minister of the Netherlands (1915–2016)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Piet Hein
1905–1996
20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet (1905–1996)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Piet Keizer
1943–2017
Dutch footballer (1943–2017)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Piet Schrijvers
1946–2022
Dutch association football player (1946–2022)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms9

Wikidata Q1439952CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: PietCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: PetrusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia: Piet (given name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: PietjeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-Piet.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Piet.oggCC-BY-SA-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Piet

Dutch origin

Where Piet is used

Across borders

France

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Piet Mondrian

Piet de Jong

Piet Hein

Piet Keizer

Piet Schrijvers

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Piet

Dutch origin

Where Piet is used

Across borders

France

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Piet Mondrian

Piet de Jong

Piet Hein

Piet Keizer

Piet Schrijvers

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page