Pierre
Pierre was given to 159 boys in 2025, #1,253 among boys’ names; 19,143 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,500 Americans named Pierre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 22 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pierre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pierre mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Pierre is “a male given name from French, of occasional usage, equivalent to English Peter.”
Borrowed from French Pierre. Doublet of Peter.
/piˈɛɹ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pierre?
#1,253 among boys’ names, 2025
Pierre fell from #1,129 in 2015 to #1,253 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 88.7 to 93.1 per million.
482 babies in 1988, the peak
Pierre peaked in 1988, when 482 babies were given it (475 boys, #415 among boys’ names). The 159 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 159 | #1,253 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 159 | #1,247 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 177 | #1,168 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 178 | #1,161 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 196 | #1,084 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,115 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 184 | #1,088 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 194 | #1,050 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 157 | #1,189 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 173 | #1,126 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 170 | #1,129 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 203 | #1,011 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 205 | #977 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,021 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 198 | #989 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 211 | #950 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 191 | #1,021 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 203 | #982 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 192 | #1,010 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 185 | #999 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 162 | #1,039 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 150 | #1,068 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 176 | #934 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 170 | #946 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 159 | #970 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 166 | #924 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 158 | #925 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 191 | #804 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 183 | #803 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 164 | #849 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 163 | #842 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 204 | #735 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 250 | #652 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 295 | #597 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 366 | #525 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 387 | #493 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 423 | #457 | 0.21 |
| 1988 | 475 | #415 | 0.25 |
| 1987 | 472 | #401 | 0.25 |
| 1986 | 470 | #389 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 447 | #406 | 0.24 |
| 1984 | 410 | #406 | 0.23 |
| 1983 | 408 | #404 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 357 | #453 | 0.20 |
| 1981 | 298 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1980 | 282 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 234 | #562 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 166 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 179 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 142 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 152 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 180 | #599 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 124 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 151 | #654 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 174 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 198 | #574 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 188 | #574 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 188 | #553 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 215 | #513 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 210 | #526 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 231 | #501 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 224 | #522 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 238 | #519 | 0.12 |
| 1962 | 185 | #577 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 240 | #514 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 241 | #512 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 225 | #526 | 0.11 |
| 1958 | 208 | #532 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 190 | #559 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 162 | #598 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 155 | #590 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 167 | #571 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 127 | #634 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 105 | #679 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 102 | #694 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 116 | #645 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 91 | #720 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 83 | #741 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 102 | #687 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 85 | #709 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 64 | #772 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 86 | #672 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 64 | #826 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 62 | #831 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 70 | #743 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 57 | #836 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 63 | #767 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 67 | #750 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 63 | #776 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 64 | #764 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 66 | #762 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 50 | #896 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 58 | #820 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 60 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 65 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 59 | #863 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 57 | #886 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 54 | #921 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 62 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 54 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 61 | #894 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 52 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 59 | #918 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 71 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 51 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 49 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 46 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,038 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 44 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 39 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 22 | #987 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,263 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,284 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 12 | #885 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 10 | #933 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 10 | #918 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 8 | #981 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 9 | #862 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 10 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 11 | #725 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 11 | #673 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 11 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 12 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,093 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 18 | #470 | 0.16 |
| 1896 | 8 | #878 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 7 | #958 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 9 | #773 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 8 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 13 | #589 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 9 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 6 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 10 | #661 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 10 | #686 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 9 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 10 | #636 | 0.09 |
| 1885 | 9 | #683 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 11 | #598 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 13 | #514 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 12 | #569 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 11 | #556 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 13 | #518 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pierre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pierre has been given almost only to boys: 74 girls in 145 years of records.
Girls and boys named Pierre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pierre, and how old are they?
15,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 19,143 Americans ever recorded as Pierre. The median Pierre alive today is 38 years old; half are between 22 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 22,575 people named Pierre (191 women and girls, 22,384 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% 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 | 229 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,660 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,350 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,320 |
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).
Where are babies named Pierre born?
The states with the most babies named Pierre are Texas, California and Georgia, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,205 | 0.6× |
| California | 13 | #1,412 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 11 | #838 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,245 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #854 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 9 | #917 | 2.2× |
| Maryland | 9 | #556 | 1.2× |
| New York | 8 | #1,376 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 8 | #886 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,090 | 0.6× |
Where Pierre is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pierre is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pierre with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 19,964 babies since 1880, Pierre is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 159 of their 185 babies (86%), again the 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.
More about Pierre and names like it
- Compare Pierre and PieroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sPierre peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pierre since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Pierre: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Pierre.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Pierre alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.