Pearce is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Pierce, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Pearce: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,479 in 1912.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,479 in 1912; #4,666 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Pearce in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,666 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1912, at #2,479.
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Pearce: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,479 in 1912 · most boys in one year: 45 (2010).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Pearce, making it the 4,666th most common boys’ name of the year, up 535 places from #5,201 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 19 boys named Pearce in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,479, reached in 1912. The most boys given the name in a single year was 45, in 2010. For comparison, it was #3,207 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Pearce, making it the 14,506th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #10,966, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 9. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pearce in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 1,296 US babies have been given the name, 3.8% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 346 babies named Pearce.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 296 US boys were named Pearce; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Pierce (20,634 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Pearce in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,506 | 22 | #4,666 |
| 2024 | — | — | 19 | #5,201 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,966 | 20 | #5,016 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,950 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,160 | 33 | #3,473 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,132 | 34 | #3,324 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,167 | 31 | #3,615 |
| 2018 | — | — | 35 | #3,288 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,864 |
| 2016 | — | — | 31 | #3,587 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,207 |
| 2014 | — | — | 20 | #4,819 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,474 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,629 | 38 | #3,044 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,152 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,717 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,980 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,992 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,795 | 36 | #3,172 |
| 2006 | — | — | 32 | #3,362 |
| 2005 | — | — | 30 | #3,366 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,268 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,345 |
| 2002 | — | — | 34 | #2,803 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,387 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,202 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,078 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,907 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,882 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,270 |
| 1995 | — | — | 26 | #2,829 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,560 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,470 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,789 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,774 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,730 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,735 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,194 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,493 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,209 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,176 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,428 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,024 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,004 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,789 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,288 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,792 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,675 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,472 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,511 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,354 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,225 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,626 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #3,052 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,925 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,608 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,194 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,415 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,375 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,077 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,326 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,804 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,215 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #3,062 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,058 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,345 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,260 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,479 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).