Pershing
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pershing has been given to 599 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 295 recorded.
Babies named Pershing, 1964
1 in 648,000
Pershing over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Pershing?
Pershing had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1964
- 1 in 648,000
- 6 of 3,887,460 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 332,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1964
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 449,098 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pershing sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 449,098 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pershing. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pershings were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pershing was born before 1918 — so the typical Pershing is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 77.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 12
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 77.0% of all recorded uses (461).
Is Pershing 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (295)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 65.6% average annual change
Where Pershing is used
Across 1910–2025, Pershing was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 421,422 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 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. Pershing has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Pershing by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Pershing
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pershing
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.