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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Pierson is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#748 · 1 in 5,305
- Missouri#750 · 1 in 5,101
- Michigan#873 · 1 in 6,632
- Pennsylvania#945 · 1 in 8,315
- Virginia#963 · 1 in 8,150
Best ever in a state: #457 in South Carolina, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | #748 | 11 | 1 in 5,305 |
| Missouri | #750 | 6 | 1 in 5,101 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,632 |
| Pennsylvania | #945 | 7 | 1 in 8,315 |
| Virginia | #963 | 5 | 1 in 8,150 |
| Texas | #1,275 | 13 | 1 in 13,551 |
| Florida | #1,362 | 7 | 1 in 13,810 |
| California | #1,877 | 8 | 1 in 26,964 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 14,238 of them was named Pierson, which outranked 90.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,360Cartier131
- #1,360Destin131
- #1,360Ever131
- #1,365Pierson130
- #1,365Arham130
- #1,365Daryl130
- #1,365Elan130
- #1,373Isa129
- #1,373Josh129
- #1,373Mikah129
Tied with 7 names at #1,365; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.