Pierce developed from Piers, a English medieval variant of Peter. This name has its origins in the Greek name ‘Petros’ meaning ‘stone, rock’.
Pierce is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Pierce isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Pierce ranks 467. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Pierce. In the entire USA, approximately 14,417 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Pierce. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Pierce annualy. This means that there have been boys named Pierce who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Pierce have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Pierce even more than any other time: in 1890, it holds its present record at rank #366 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Pierce was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Pierce has never been ranked higher than #366. In 2022, he rivaled the 507 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 549 boys named Pierce were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Pierce were born, there have been 202 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Pierce is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Pierce and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Pierce, you can simply say:
Pig
Igloo
Elephant
Rocket
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Pierce
Pierce
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
I
E
R
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
I
E
R
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Pierce sounds like this:
