How Many People Are Named Pierre?
people named Pierre are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 21,892 people in the US has this name
Based on 19,143 babies named Pierre in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
482 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
French form of PETER. This name was borne by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), a French impressionist painter, and by Pierre Curie (1859-1906), a physicist who discovered radioactivity with his wife Marie.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Pierre (99.6%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Pierre alive today is about 37 years old, and 49% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 21 and 51 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Pierre first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1988, to 482 babies. In 2025, 159 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Pierre has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #389, in 1986. In 2025 it ranked #1,253.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,253 |
| Best rank | #389 (1986) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #428 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Pierre alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Pierre were born in Illinois than in any other state: about 1,852 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Pierre was given 3.4 times as often in Louisiana, 3 times in Illinois and 2.2 times in District of Columbia.
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