Pearce
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
- Given to boys 96.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1912 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,247since 1912
Pearce over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Pearce has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #13,208 | 6 | #4,539 | 22 |
| 2024 | — | #5,067 | 19 | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | — | #2,919 | 43 | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #3,427 | 33 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | — | #3,240 | 35 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,781 | 28 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,524 | 31 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,149 | 36 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,702 | 20 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,405 | 31 | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | — | #3,114 | 36 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,682 | 45 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #3,135 | 36 |
| 2006 | — | #3,306 | 32 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,319 | 30 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,217 | 30 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,280 | 28 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,755 | 34 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,321 | 26 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,150 | 27 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,031 | 27 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,851 | 28 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,823 | 27 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,202 | 22 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,762 | 26 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,469 | 19 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,368 | 19 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,564 | 12 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,636 | 16 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,607 | 16 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,527 | 11 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,070 | 15 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
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| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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| 1941 | — | #2,491 | 9 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,155 | 8 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
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| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1912
The first year at least five boys were named Pearce! It came in at #2,269, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Pearce is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Pearce in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Pearce
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 528 spots since 2024 (#5,067 → #4,539)
- 1,265 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #4,539)
- 1,390 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #4,539)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1912 at #2,269 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1913, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 40,605
- Highest: 1 in 40,605 boys born in 2022 were named Pearce (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,269 in 1912, was only 1 in 71,657 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 26.5% of all boys named Pearce (331) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 31 | #2,269 (1912) | #3,319 |
| 1920s | 33 | #3,151 (1927) | #3,638 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,763 (1931) | #3,882 |
| 1940s | 21 | #2,491 (1941) | #2,964 |
| 1950s | 23 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,606 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,048 (1963) | #4,048 |
| 1970s | 21 | #4,797 (1975) | #5,295 |
| 1980s | 66 | #3,070 (1985) | #5,179 |
| 1990s | 212 | #2,762 (1995) | #3,331 |
| 2000s | 323 | #2,755 (2002) | #3,138 |
| 2010s | 331 | #2,682 (2010) | #3,417 |
| 2020s | 171 | #2,919 (2022) | #4,019 |
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.
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