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How popular is “Pierson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pierson” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Pierson” 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 “Pierson” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Pierson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pierson” 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
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 11 0.000006003 11 -100%
1916 8 0.000004136 8 -100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 -100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 -100%
1989 21 0.000005462 21 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 -100%
1992 19 0.000004946 19 -100%
1993 29 0.000007692 29 -100%
1994 26 0.000006994 26 -100%
1995 27 0.000007373 27 -100%
1996 28 0.000007677 28 -100%
1997 30 0.000008274 30 -100%
1998 27 0.000007341 5 22 -63%
1999 61 0.000016514 61 -100%
2000 49 0.000012963 49 -100%
2001 65 0.000017364 5 60 -85%
2002 82 0.000021935 82 -100%
2003 71 0.000018673 5 66 -86%
2004 90 0.000023555 90 -100%
2005 107 0.000027829 107 -100%
2006 93 0.000023507 93 -100%
2007 122 0.000030518 122 -100%
2008 110 0.000027985 6 104 -89%
2009 118 0.000030889 118 -100%
2010 117 0.000031658 117 -100%
2011 120 0.000032807 120 -100%
2012 139 0.000038005 6 133 -91%
2013 128 0.00003511 7 121 -89%
2014 137 0.000036963 137 -100%
2015 134 0.000036207 134 -100%
2016 151 0.000041159 8 143 -89%
2017 130 0.000036351 130 -100%
2018 175 0.000049774 7 168 -92%
2019 146 0.000042064 146 -100%
2020 178 0.000053284 6 172 -93%
2021 162 0.000047817 9 153 -89%
2022 136 0.000040199 13 123 -81%
2023 127 0.000038355 8 119 -87%
2024 134 0.000040258 10 124 -85%

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