# Pierpont (surname)

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

A surname from Norman.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norman |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 974 |
| US rank (2010) | 25,403 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 316,987 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.1% (945 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Pierpoint |

## Etymology

From the Norman habitational surname, from any of various places in Northern France, from pierre (“stone”) + pont (“bridge”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pierpont 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) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pierpont in the United States.

## People named Pierpont

- Francis Harrison Pierpont, American politician (1814-1899)
- James Pierpont, American mathematician (1866-1938)
- John Pierpont, American poet, teacher, lawyer, merchant, Unitarian minister

## Similar surnames

Provenzano, Provencher, Parvin, Provencio, Province, Provan.

## 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.