Pierre

Where Pierre comes from

Borrowed from French Pierre. Doublet of Peter.
— Wiktionary's entry for Pierre
  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1601
    Pierre de Fermat born
    French mathematician and lawyer
  2. 1863
    Pierre de Coubertin born
    founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #505 among boys — 13 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1986
    Peak, #389
    470 babies named Pierre — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #736.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from French, of occasional usage, equivalent to English Peter.
Namesakes
  • Pierre de Coubertin · founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian, 1863–1937
  • Pierre de Fermat · French mathematician and lawyer, 1601–1665
  • Pierre Corneille · French tragedian, 1606–1684
  • Pierre Trudeau · Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984, 1919–2000
  • Pierre Bourdieu · French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher, 1930–2002

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.