Pierre is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Pierre 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, Pierre ranks 992. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Pierre. In the entire USA, approximately 13,511 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Pierre. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
You may not know anyone named Pierre, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 30 states are home to men and boys named Pierre. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Pierre living in one state or another. If your name is Pierre and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Louisiana, which has the most people named Pierre relative to the population, you still have to ask 3,436 men and boys their names before you hear Pierre as an answer just once.
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 Pierre 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 Pierre 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 Pierre, you can simply say:
Pig
Igloo
Elephant
Rocket
Rocket
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Pierre
Pierre
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
I
E
R
R
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
R
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. Pierre sounds like this:
