Piers is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Piers in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Piers in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Piers by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Piers ranks at #7,014. That means there are 7,013 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Piers.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Piers. Boys named Piers have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,031 Piers ranked higher than ever in 1952. By comparison, there have been 110 years in which the first name Piers has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their sons Piers only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Piers was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Piers continues to be a precious jewel: 11 newborns were named Piers that year, ranking #6,204 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Piers, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a man or boy named Piers is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Piers can be found in only two: California and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Piers. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Piers living in one state or another. (If your name is Piers and you live outside of California or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Piers is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00007% of all male residents are called Piers – that’s just one in 1,360,973! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 17 men going by that name. So, if your name is Piers, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first 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 five letters, the name Piers is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Piers 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 Piers, you can simply say:
Pig
Igloo
Elephant
Rocket
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Piers
Piers
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
I
E
R
S
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
S
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. Piers sounds like this:
