How Many People Are Named Pierce?
people named Pierce are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 18,678 people in the US has this name
Based on 20,634 babies named Pierce in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
668 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname which was derived from the given name PIERS.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Pierce in English. Counting Pierce and these spellings together, about 19,767 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Pierce, 2.1% were girls and 97.9% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1880s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 4.2% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Pierce alive today is about 18 years old, and 86% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Pierce first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2015, to 668 babies. In 2025, 618 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Pierce has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #394, in 1886. In 2025 it ranked #505.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #505 |
| Best rank | #394 (1886) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #490 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Pierce alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Pierce were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,843 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Pierce was given 1.7 times as often in Georgia, 1.6 times in Kansas and 1.4 times in Nebraska.
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