Pierson
Pierson is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 124 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1240.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020172 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 3,494people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,399 boys have been named Pierson in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 172 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 40%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 95 girls have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Pierson | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 40 | |
| 1920s | 28 | |
| 1930s | 16 | |
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 6 | |
| 1960s | 6 | |
| 1970s | 10 | |
| 1980s | 88 | |
| 1990s | 269 | |
| 2000s | 891 | |
| 2010s | 1,349 | |
| 2020s | 691 |
In 2020, its biggest year
Pierson was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Pierson
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zephaniahpeak 2019
- Oskarpeak 2016
- Zakariapeak 2017
- Avianpeak 2022
- Sebastianpeak 2016
- Gianlucapeak 2017
- Reevepeak 2016
- Josiahpeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.