How common is the surname Poirier?

9,453 people in the United States had the surname Poirier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,661 Americans. It ranked 3,747th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Poirier?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Poirier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Poirier?

Dustin Poirier, American mixed martial artist.

Where is the surname Poirier most common?

Wikidata records people named Poirier in the United States.

Is the surname Poirier getting more or less common?

More common. 9,055 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,453 in 2010, up 4.4%.

The surname Poirier

A French place surname, carried by 9,453 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P660

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Poirier is more common than 97.7% of them.

Origin

French origin

Borrowed from French Poirier, from poirier (“pear tree”).

Poirier is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,453 people named Poirier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 32,661 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,055.

#3,747

rank among US surnames

9,453

people in 2010

3.2

per 100,000 Americans

+4.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,608)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,738	Vaught	9,476	32,582
#3,739	Close	9,474	32,589
#3,740	Feeney	9,473	32,592
#3,741	Smyth	9,470	32,602
#3,742	Sibley	9,467	32,613
#3,743	Fairbanks	9,466	32,616
#3,744	Cockrell	9,465	32,620

Who is named Poirier

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Poirier identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Poiriers

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Dustin Poirier
American mixed martial artist, born 1989

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Poirrier

Surnames that sound like Poirier

Prior

Poirier has the Soundex code P660, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P660.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Poirier come from?: Borrowed from French Poirier, from poirier (“pear tree”).
How common is the surname Poirier?: 9,453 people in the United States had the surname Poirier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,661 Americans. It ranked 3,747th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Poirier?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Poirier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Poirier?: Dustin Poirier, American mixed martial artist.
Where is the surname Poirier most common?: Wikidata records people named Poirier in the United States.
What type of surname is Poirier?: Poirier is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Poirier getting more or less common?: More common. 9,055 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,453 in 2010, up 4.4%.
What are other spellings of Poirier?: Poirrier.