# Pierce (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pierce/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Bearss |
| US babies named this | 20,634 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 20,245 / 389 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 680, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 10,997 |
| 2012 | 14 | 8,527 |
| 2013 | 15 | 8,064 |
| 2014 | 11 | 10,003 |
| 2015 | 20 | 6,409 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,299 |
| 2017 | 15 | 7,755 |
| 2018 | 19 | 6,459 |
| 2019 | 22 | 5,752 |
| 2020 | 24 | 5,280 |
| 2021 | 20 | 6,120 |
| 2022 | 32 | 4,446 |
| 2023 | 22 | 5,692 |
| 2024 | 29 | 4,748 |
| 2025 | 20 | 6,061 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 565 | 473 |
| 2012 | 570 | 479 |
| 2013 | 608 | 462 |
| 2014 | 621 | 469 |
| 2015 | 648 | 466 |
| 2016 | 647 | 474 |
| 2017 | 547 | 523 |
| 2018 | 588 | 490 |
| 2019 | 590 | 490 |
| 2020 | 580 | 504 |
| 2021 | 585 | 503 |
| 2022 | 518 | 571 |
| 2023 | 537 | 547 |
| 2024 | 554 | 540 |
| 2025 | 598 | 505 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 17 | 1,358 |
| 2010 | 18 | 1,344 |
| 2011 | 19 | 1,303 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,079 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,804 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Пиърс
- Japanese: パース
- Russian: Пи́рс

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.