Pietra
Pietra is a name with a single cultural origin: Italian.
- Italian
Meaning & Origin of Pietra
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Pietra is a name with a single cultural origin: Italian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Italian
The Story of Pietra
Pietra first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1968, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2018: 16 births, good for #7,095 nationwide. About 57% of every Pietra on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Pietra last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 11 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 182 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Pietra
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Pietra. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Pietra
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About the name Pietra
Pietra is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1968 and has accumulated 182 births in the dataset. Pietra's peak popularity came in 2018 when it ranked #7,095. Use the chart and map above to compare Pietra's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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