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Pierina

Girls' name

Diminutive of Piero

Pierina has been given to 262 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1915, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Pierina, 2017

1 in 715,000

Pierina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pierina: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Piero

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pierina means

Pierina is a diminutive of Piero.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pierina is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /pje.ˈri.na/ for Pierina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pierina → Piero → Peter → Peter. The family’s meaning is “stone, rock”, recorded in English with the source elements pétros.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Piero.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 262 girls were recorded with the name Pierina between 1907 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,942 in 1915.

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 Pierina?

Pierina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pierina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pierina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pierinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pierina was born before 1922 — so the typical Pierina is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
15
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1920s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Pierina 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (17)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,942
1915

Spellings of Pierina

Pierina is not the most common spelling — Serina is, with 33.9% against Pierina's 1.5%.

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 Pierina is used

Across 1910–2025, Pierina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 518,706 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Pierina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pierina around the world

Where Pierina 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.

  • France
    1906–2012
    #7,111
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1952–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pierina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,942
1915
Peak year
1915
17 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
262
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pierina

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

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Sibling names for Pierina

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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