Pearce
Pearce is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201045 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 1,268people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,225 boys have been named Pearce in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 45 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2010, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2010s alone account for 27%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 43 girls have also been given it, 3.4% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Pearce | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 31 | |
| 1920s | 33 | |
| 1930s | 10 | |
| 1940s | 21 | |
| 1950s | 23 | |
| 1960s | 5 | |
| 1970s | 21 | |
| 1980s | 66 | |
| 1990s | 212 | |
| 2000s | 323 | |
| 2010s | 331 | |
| 2020s | 149 |
In 2010, its biggest year
Pearce was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2010 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Jayden and William. See all of 2010.
Names that rose and fell with Pearce
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gersonpeak 2008
- Dominicpeak 2013
- Maxwellpeak 2014
- Alonsopeak 2010
- Zanepeak 2018
- Armanpeak 2004
- Draytonpeak 2012
- Urielpeak 2008
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.