Pearce
Pearce is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 22 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,502 among girls’ names and #4,665 among boys’, #8,398 among all names counting both); 1,296 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Pearce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pearce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pearce?
#4,665 among boys’ names, 2025
Pearce fell from #3,206 in 2015 to #4,665 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 12.9 per million.
45 babies in 2010, the peak
Pearce peaked in 2010, when 45 boys were given it, #2,716 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,665 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,197 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,011 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,948 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,470 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,322 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,612 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 35 | #3,285 | 19.3 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,860 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,586 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,206 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,815 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,472 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,042 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,151 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,716 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,979 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,991 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,170 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,360 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,362 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,264 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,340 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,799 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,382 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,196 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,074 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,904 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,878 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,264 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,824 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,554 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,464 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,782 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,767 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,724 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,729 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,187 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,486 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,204 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,173 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,424 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,020 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,001 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,787 | 2.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,286 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,790 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,673 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,470 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,510 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,353 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,224 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,625 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,051 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,924 | 3.5 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,608 | 7.3 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,192 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,413 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,374 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,075 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,324 | 7.2 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,802 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,213 | 5.4 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,061 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,057 | 5.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,343 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,258 | 5.9 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,478 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pearce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,296 Americans recorded as Pearce, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Pearce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pearce, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,296 Americans ever recorded as Pearce. The median Pearce alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,104 people named Pearce (83 women and girls, 1,021 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,005 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 528 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 417 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 34,311 babies since 1880, Pearce is the second most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 192 babies (15%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pearce
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pearce and names like it
- Compare Pearce and PercyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPearce peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pearce since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Pearce.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Pearce alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.