# Pearse (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pearse/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname transferred from the given name.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | patronymic, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,259 |
| US rank (2010) | 20,926 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 245,231 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.3% (1,288 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

A variant of Piers.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pearse in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.0% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pearse in the United States.

## People named Pearse

- Arthur Sperry Pearse, American botanist, zoologist and ichthyologist (1877-1956)

## Similar surnames

Perez, Pearce, Paris, Peres, Peirce, Parise, Pearcy, Paras, Pariseau, Perras, Purse, Piers.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.