How Many People Are Named Pieter?
people named Pieter are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 397,424 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,011 babies named Pieter in Social Security records from 1935 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
24 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Dutch form of PETER. This name was borne by the 16th-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Pieter in English. Counting Pieter and these spellings together, about 390,682 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Pieter in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Pieter alive today is about 42 years old, and 50% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 27 and 57 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Pieter first appears in the records in 1935 and was given most often in 1967, to 24 babies. In 2025, 5 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1935 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Pieter has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,596, in 1967. In 2025 it ranked #13,403.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #13,403 |
| Best rank | #1,596 (1967) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #3,027 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Pieter alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Pieter were born in California than in any other state: about 50 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Pieter was given about 6.5 times as often in California.
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