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How popular is “Pierre” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pierre” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Pierre” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Pierre” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Pierre” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Pierre” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Pierre” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pierre” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 13 0.000064521 13 -100%
1881 11 0.000057087 11 -100%
1882 12 0.000054168 12 -100%
1883 13 0.000059923 13 -100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 10 0.000039167 10 -100%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 -100%
1888 10 0.000033392 10 -100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1891 9 0.000031395 9 -100%
1892 13 0.000038879 13 -100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1894 9 0.000026573 9 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 -100%
1897 18 0.00005188 18 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1899 12 0.000035374 12 -100%
1900 11 0.00002443 11 -100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 -100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 -100%
1903 10 0.000026233 10 -100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 -100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 -100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 -100%
1908 10 0.000020465 10 -100%
1909 12 0.000023473 12 -100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 22 0.000022266 22 -100%
1913 21 0.000018468 21 -100%
1914 39 0.000027536 39 -100%
1915 44 0.000024012 44 -100%
1916 39 0.000020161 39 -100%
1917 46 0.000022923 46 -100%
1918 49 0.000022569 49 -100%
1919 51 0.000024168 51 -100%
1920 71 0.000031379 71 -100%
1921 59 0.000025273 59 -100%
1922 52 0.000022716 52 -100%
1923 46 0.000019978 46 -100%
1924 61 0.000025613 61 -100%
1925 54 0.000023143 54 -100%
1926 43 0.000018729 43 -100%
1927 62 0.000026732 62 -100%
1928 54 0.000023884 54 -100%
1929 57 0.000026002 57 -100%
1930 59 0.000026537 59 -100%
1931 65 0.000030888 65 -100%
1932 60 0.000028419 60 -100%
1933 58 0.000029008 58 -100%
1934 50 0.000024075 50 -100%
1935 66 0.00003158 66 -100%
1936 64 0.000030805 64 -100%
1937 63 0.000029568 63 -100%
1938 67 0.000030281 67 -100%
1939 63 0.000028592 63 -100%
1940 57 0.000024754 57 -100%
1941 70 0.000028731 70 -100%
1942 62 0.000022696 62 -100%
1943 64 0.000022674 64 -100%
1944 86 0.000031969 86 -100%
1945 64 0.000024124 64 -100%
1946 85 0.000026602 85 -100%
1947 102 0.000028315 102 -100%
1948 83 0.00002404 83 -100%
1949 91 0.000026114 91 -100%
1950 116 0.000033111 116 -100%
1951 102 0.000027689 102 -100%
1952 105 0.000027646 105 -100%
1953 127 0.000032956 127 -100%
1954 167 0.000041952 167 -100%
1955 160 0.00003985 5 155 -94%
1956 162 0.000039291 162 -100%
1957 190 0.000045215 190 -100%
1958 208 0.000050316 208 -100%
1959 225 0.000054113 225 -100%
1960 241 0.000058019 241 -100%
1961 245 0.000059146 5 240 -96%
1962 185 0.000045845 185 -100%
1963 238 0.000060128 238 -100%
1964 224 0.000057619 224 -100%
1965 231 0.000063716 231 -100%
1966 210 0.00006042 210 -100%
1967 215 0.00006333 215 -100%
1968 188 0.000055647 188 -100%
1969 188 0.000054096 188 -100%
1970 198 0.000054901 198 -100%
1971 174 0.000050694 174 -100%
1972 151 0.000048043 151 -100%
1973 124 0.000041102 124 -100%
1974 180 0.000059211 180 -100%
1975 157 0.000051997 5 152 -94%
1976 142 0.000046798 142 -100%
1977 179 0.000056351 179 -100%
1978 166 0.000052302 166 -100%
1979 234 0.000070334 234 -100%
1980 282 0.00008187 282 -100%
1981 305 0.000088166 7 298 -95%
1982 357 0.000101768 357 -100%
1983 414 0.000119538 6 408 -97%
1984 415 0.000118954 5 410 -98%
1985 459 0.000128603 12 447 -95%
1986 479 0.000134661 9 470 -96%
1987 478 0.000132571 6 472 -97%
1988 482 0.000130445 7 475 -97%
1989 423 0.000110029 423 -100%
1990 394 0.000099684 7 387 -96%
1991 366 0.00009396 366 -100%
1992 295 0.000076797 295 -100%
1993 250 0.000066308 250 -100%
1994 204 0.000054873 204 -100%
1995 163 0.000044509 163 -100%
1996 164 0.000044966 164 -100%
1997 183 0.000050472 183 -100%
1998 191 0.000051927 191 -100%
1999 158 0.000042774 158 -100%
2000 166 0.000043916 166 -100%
2001 159 0.000042475 159 -100%
2002 170 0.000045475 170 -100%
2003 176 0.000046288 176 -100%
2004 150 0.000039258 150 -100%
2005 162 0.000042134 162 -100%
2006 185 0.000046762 185 -100%
2007 192 0.000048028 192 -100%
2008 203 0.000051645 203 -100%
2009 191 0.000049998 191 -100%
2010 211 0.000057093 211 -100%
2011 198 0.000054131 198 -100%
2012 192 0.000052497 192 -100%
2013 205 0.000056231 205 -100%
2014 203 0.00005477 203 -100%
2015 170 0.000045935 170 -100%
2016 173 0.000047156 173 -100%
2017 157 0.000043901 157 -100%
2018 193 0.000054894 193 -100%
2019 184 0.000053012 184 -100%
2020 177 0.000052985 177 -100%
2021 196 0.000057852 196 -100%
2022 178 0.000052614 178 -100%
2023 177 0.000053455 177 -100%
2024 158 0.000047469 158 -100%

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