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Pearse

#8,072 in 2025Boys' name

Stone, rock, through Piers

Pearse has been given to 214 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #8,072 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Pearse, 2025

1 in 332,000

Pearse over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pearse: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, rock, through Piers

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pearse means

Pearse belongs to the name family reached through Pearse → Piers → Peter. Its meaning is “stone, rock”.

Origin, language, and formation

Pearse is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Piers and Peter.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 214 boys were recorded with the name Pearse between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1999; its best national rank was #4,951 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,546 in 2020 to #8,072 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,345 in 2015 to #8,072 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pearse?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,072
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pearse sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pearse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pearses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pearse was born before 2007 — so the typical Pearse is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
214
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Pearse rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,474
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,273
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 1999 (14)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,951
1999

Spellings of Pearse

Pearse is not the most common spelling — Earle is, with 56.1% against Pearse's 1.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pearse is used

Across 1910–2025, Pearse was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pearse has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pearse around the world

Where Pearse ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    1999–2024
    #535
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #199
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1965–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pearse by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,072
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,474
Best rank ever
#4,951
1999
Peak year
1999
14 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
214
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Pearse

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Pearse

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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