Anyone Heard This Before?

This year at my school, we got a student from Lithuania, of all places! (I live in Texas, by the way.) His names is Pijus and is pronounced like "pews" (or Hugh, but plural and with a P). Has anyone ever heard of this before? I know it isn't listed on this website. Just curious about thoughts. :D
Love, NameGoddess

Since Lithuania is a Catholic country I think it might be a form of Pius.
Not sure, though!

No, I haven't! And thanks for giving a pronunciation guide - "PEWS" is much better than "PEE JUICE," which was going through my head! Ha!

Interesting name, though...

The way you say Pijus "pews" reminds me of the entry I made for "most unusual boys names" - Dariush prn dahr-yoosh. He's from the Middle East, but it's so obvious once I wrote it down, it is like Darius - with an accent.

Lithuania may be one of those countries that uses a j as more a y-sound. Like some Scandinavian languages - fjord or even Kjersten (which is all like Keer-sten, except I imagine it is more like Kyeer-sten, a slight difference - more like an emphasis).

Anyway - Pijus seems like an interesting name. Thank you for sharing it!