Pershing
Pershing was last recorded in 1964, when 6 babies were given it; 599 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pershing by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pershing?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,924, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
295 babies in 1918, the peak
Pershing peaked in 1918, when 295 boys were given it, #334 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 | #3,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,610 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,052 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,167 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,141 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,628 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 7 | #3,625 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,391 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,200 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 103 | #595 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 295 | #334 | 0.29 |
| 1917 | 53 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,576 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pershing a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pershing has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pershing: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pershing, and how old are they?
An estimated 33 Americans named Pershing and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 128 people named Pershing (5 women and girls, 123 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times 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.
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).
More about Pershing and names like it
- The most given names of the 1910sPershing peaked in 1918.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pershing since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Pershing.
- Names starting with PMost given first.