Pierson
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #1,451 for boys in 2025, 123 births
Given to boys 96.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 172 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,522since 1912
Pierson over time
Rank among boys' names. Pierson has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | #1,451 | 123 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #1,459 | 124 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #1,498 | 119 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #1,468 | 123 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #1,245 | 153 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,134 | 172 |
| 2019 | — | #1,277 | 146 | |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #1,141 | 168 |
| 2017 | — | #1,365 | 130 | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #1,275 | 143 |
| 2015 | — | #1,317 | 134 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,296 | 137 | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,387 | 121 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #1,299 | 133 |
| 2011 | — | #1,385 | 120 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,415 | 117 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,425 | 118 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,543 | 104 |
| 2007 | — | #1,365 | 122 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,575 | 93 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,390 | 107 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,491 | 90 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,800 | 66 |
| 2002 | — | #1,514 | 82 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #1,841 | 60 |
| 2000 | — | #2,049 | 49 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,710 | 61 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #3,390 | 22 |
| 1997 | — | #2,613 | 30 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,679 | 28 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,685 | 27 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,766 | 26 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,509 | 29 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,338 | 19 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,902 | 21 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,961 | 18 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,653 | 12 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,310 | 11 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Pierson! It came in at #2,045, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Pierson
- 8 spots since 2024 (#1,459 → #1,451)
- 317 spots since 2020 (#1,134 → #1,451)
- 134 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #1,451)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2020 at #1,134 (172 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,035 boys born in 2020 were named Pierson (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,887 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.3% of all boys named Pierson (1,349) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 40 | #2,045 (1912) | #2,630 |
| 1920s | 28 | #3,385 (1926) | #4,014 |
| 1930s | 16 | #3,175 (1937) | #3,491 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,535 (1956) | #3,535 |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,646 (1963) | #3,646 |
| 1970s | 10 | #5,587 (1976) | #5,680 |
| 1980s | 88 | #2,902 (1989) | #4,330 |
| 1990s | 269 | #1,710 (1999) | #3,015 |
| 2000s | 891 | #1,365 (2007) | #1,599 |
| 2010s | 1,349 | #1,141 (2018) | #1,316 |
| 2020s | 814 | #1,134 (2020) | #1,376 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Pierson in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 365,429 of them was named Pierson, which outranked 14.4% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 29,930 of them was named Pierson, which outranked 85.9% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,781Pharrell67
- #1,781Ronny67
- #1,781Tremaine67
- #1,800Pierson66
- #1,800Adian66
- #1,800Corwin66
- #1,800Demari66
- #1,815Adair65
- #1,815Beckett65
- #1,815Benjamen65
Tied with 14 names at #1,800; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.