Meaning not yet researched.
Pierson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 123 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,137 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,137 in 2020; #1,456 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Pierson in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,456 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,137.
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Pierson: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 123 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,137 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 172 (2020).
In 2025, 123 US boys were named Pierson, making it the 1,456th most common boys’ name of the year, up 11 places from #1,467 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 124 boys named Pierson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,137, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 172. For comparison, it was #1,323 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Pierson, making it the 7,410th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,674 places from #10,084 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 10 girls named Pierson in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #7,410, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 15. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pierson in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 3,633 US babies have been given the name, 3.1% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,377 babies named Pierson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,401 US boys were named Pierson; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 172. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,887 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Pierson ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #762 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Pearson (1,678 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Piercen and Piersen are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Piercen (204), Piersen (28).
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 Pierson in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 6 | #762 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #850 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #974 | #748 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,004 | #1,269 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,148 | #616 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,202 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,459 | #996 |
| California | 12 | #1,486 | #2,830 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,785 | #1,484 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,410 | 123 | #1,456 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,084 | 124 | #1,467 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,950 | 119 | #1,499 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,411 | 123 | #1,474 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,137 | 153 | #1,250 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,705 | 172 | #1,137 |
| 2019 | — | — | 146 | #1,279 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,479 | 168 | #1,149 |
| 2017 | — | — | 130 | #1,371 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,612 | 143 | #1,276 |
| 2015 | — | — | 134 | #1,323 |
| 2014 | — | — | 137 | #1,299 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,264 | 121 | #1,396 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,390 | 133 | #1,302 |
| 2011 | — | — | 120 | #1,394 |
| 2010 | — | — | 117 | #1,422 |
| 2009 | — | — | 118 | #1,432 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,978 | 104 | #1,551 |
| 2007 | — | — | 122 | #1,367 |
| 2006 | — | — | 93 | #1,581 |
| 2005 | — | — | 107 | #1,398 |
| 2004 | — | — | 90 | #1,501 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,729 | 66 | #1,812 |
| 2002 | — | — | 82 | #1,528 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,277 | 60 | #1,862 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,079 |
| 1999 | — | — | 61 | #1,718 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,942 | 22 | #3,462 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,665 |
| 1996 | — | — | 28 | #2,731 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,740 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,828 |
| 1993 | — | — | 29 | #2,562 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,423 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,589 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,279 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,970 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,047 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,497 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,820 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,593 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,432 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,805 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,012 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,520 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,255 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,924 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,840 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,061 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,918 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,437 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,199 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,657 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,630 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,818 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,141 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,812 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,145 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,125 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,416 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,179 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,219 |
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).