Pierre
Pierre is a boy's name that peaked in 1988, when it was the 414th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,252nd. About 16,000 Pierres are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Pierre boys named Pierre
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,143
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 414th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,252nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 74 / 19,069
How old the living Pierres are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,143 babies given the name since 1880, about 16,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 3,300 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Pierres
- Pierre Curie (1859–1906)French physicist
- Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937)founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)French painter and sculptor
- Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665)French mathematician and lawyer
- Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)French tragedian
- Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000)Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002)French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
- Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585)French poet
People named Pierre with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Pierre is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Pierre is most concentrated in Louisiana (3.4×), Illinois (2.9×), the District of Columbia (2.2×), New York (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular boys’ names the year Pierre peaked:
Pierre elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Pierre | 892,580 | 3rd |
| Belgium boys | Pierre | 2,777 | 54th |
| France girls | Pierre | 890 | 562nd |
| England and Wales boys | Pierre | 568 | 554th |
| Switzerland boys | Pierre | 425 | 227th |
| Ireland boys | Pierre | 42 | 254th |
| Poland boys | Pierre | 20 birth registrations | 354th |
| Scotland boys | Pierre | 6 | 375th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Pierre: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Pierre | 97 | 0.008% | 508th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Pierre | 320 | 0.074% | 76th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Pierre | 8 | 0.012% | 131st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Pierre is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.09% of children were given it – 64 of them.
Pierre: rank by region
In 2025, Pierre was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Pierre | 355 | 16 |
| Wallonia | Pierre | 317 | 8 |
In 2013, Pierre was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Pierre | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Pierre appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (178th) and Province of East Flanders (198th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Pierre among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Pierre | 2,583 | 8,217 |
| the Netherlands girls | Pierre | — | 468 |
| Finland boys | Pierre | 31 | 115 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Pierre lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 512 men called Pierre were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Pierre | 19 | 0.046 | 1,329 |
| Tarragona | Pierre | 20 | 0.046 | 1,307 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Pierre | 43 | 0.043 | 1,495 |
| Balears, Illes | Pierre | 26 | 0.042 | 1,383 |
| Barcelona | Pierre | 98 | 0.034 | 1,525 |
| Málaga | Pierre | 29 | 0.033 | 1,490 |
Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Pierre against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.