# Pierre (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pierre/  
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 | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /piˈɛɹ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 19,143 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 19,069 / 74 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 568, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from French Pierre. Doublet of Peter.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 5 | 6,493 |
| 1961 | 5 | 7,287 |
| 1975 | 5 | 10,158 |
| 1981 | 7 | 8,776 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,877 |
| 1984 | 5 | 11,661 |
| 1985 | 12 | 5,942 |
| 1986 | 9 | 7,563 |
| 1987 | 6 | 10,869 |
| 1988 | 7 | 10,064 |
| 1990 | 7 | 11,054 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 198 | 989 |
| 2012 | 192 | 1,021 |
| 2013 | 205 | 977 |
| 2014 | 203 | 1,011 |
| 2015 | 170 | 1,129 |
| 2016 | 173 | 1,126 |
| 2017 | 157 | 1,189 |
| 2018 | 194 | 1,050 |
| 2019 | 184 | 1,088 |
| 2020 | 177 | 1,115 |
| 2021 | 196 | 1,084 |
| 2022 | 178 | 1,161 |
| 2023 | 177 | 1,168 |
| 2024 | 159 | 1,247 |
| 2025 | 159 | 1,253 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 1,688 |
| 2012 | 25 | 1,086 |
| 2013 | 14 | 1,617 |
| 2014 | 21 | 1,223 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,279 |
| 2016 | 13 | 1,804 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,470 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,382 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,369 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,269 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: بيير
- Bulgarian: Пие́р
- Chinese: 皮埃爾 /皮埃尔
- Greek: Πιερ
- Japanese: ピエール
- Portuguese: Pierre
- Russian: Пьер

## People named Pierre

- Pierre de Coubertin, founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian (1863-1937)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
- Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer
- Pierre Corneille, French tragedian (1606–1684)
- Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)
- Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (1524-1585)
- Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
- Pierre Laval, French politician (1883–1945)
- Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor and writer (1925–2016)
- Pierre Mauroy, 86th Prime Minister of France (1928-2013)
- Pierre de Marivaux, French novelist and dramatist (1688-1763)

## 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.