Meaning not yet researched.
Pearson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,261 in 1898.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,261 in 1898; #3,639 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pearson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,639 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1898, at #1,261.
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Pearson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,261 in 1898 · most boys in one year: 58 (2019).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Pearson, making it the 3,639th most common boys’ name of the year, down 854 places from #2,785 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 47 boys named Pearson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,261, reached in 1898. The most boys given the name in a single year was 58, in 2019. For comparison, it was #2,557 in 2015 and #3,248 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pearson in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 1,678 US babies have been given the name, 7.5% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 506 babies named Pearson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 453 US boys were named Pearson; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Pierson (3,633 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 Pearson 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 | — | — | 31 | #3,639 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,905 | 47 | #2,785 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,022 | 41 | #3,045 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,019 | 44 | #2,904 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,929 | 45 | #2,805 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,943 | 42 | #2,876 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,592 | 58 | #2,355 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,219 | 39 | #3,040 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,474 | 55 | #2,376 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,776 | 51 | #2,508 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,153 | 49 | #2,557 |
| 2014 | — | — | 39 | #2,970 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,615 | 34 | #3,247 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,008 | 48 | #2,583 |
| 2011 | — | — | 35 | #3,224 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,464 | 39 | #2,996 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,768 | 38 | #3,091 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,402 | 52 | #2,455 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,615 | 37 | #3,121 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,614 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,953 | 30 | #3,367 |
| 2004 | — | — | 32 | #3,134 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,095 |
| 2002 | — | — | 34 | #2,804 |
| 2001 | — | — | 35 | #2,724 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,203 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,444 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,165 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,187 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,271 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,807 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,361 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,926 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #4,051 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #5,013 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,598 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,746 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,591 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,927 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,210 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,549 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,453 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,328 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,005 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,404 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,588 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,071 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,459 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,954 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,875 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,114 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,248 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,894 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,792 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,828 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,060 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,395 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,807 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #3,110 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,939 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,085 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,037 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,416 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,407 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,090 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,674 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,327 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,433 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,731 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,467 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,475 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,154 |
| 1919 | — | — | 16 | #2,040 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,122 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,271 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,413 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,816 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,380 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,261 |
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).