Pier — unisex name

What the Data Says About Pier

The Social Security Administration has registered 364 babies named Pier between 1953 and 1994, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pier currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Pier is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 119 additional births since 1954.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pier performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 153 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Pier shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Pier in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pier in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 364 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.