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Piers

#13,403 in 2025Boys' name

Stone, rock, through Peter

Piers has been given to 295 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #13,403 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Piers, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Piers: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, rock, through Peter

Ancient Greek

What Piers means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A Middle English vernacular form of Peter, from Old French Piers, from Latin Petrus. Doublet of Pedro, Peter, and Boutros.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Piers (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Piers is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Piers comes through Old French Piers and Latin Petrus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Peter and Pedro.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Piers is pronounced /pɪɹz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 295 boys were recorded with the name Piers between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2013; its best national rank was #4,127 in 1952.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,319 in 2020 to #13,403 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,405 in 2015 to #13,403 in 2025.

How common is Piers?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,403
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Piers 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Piers. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pierss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Piers was born before 2008 — so the typical Piers is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
295
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Piers 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
+336
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,084
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,998
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 2013 (20)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,127
1952

Spellings of Piers

Piers is not the most common spelling — Pierce is, with 39.5% against Piers's 0.58%.

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 Piers is used

Across 1910–2025, Piers was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,805,656 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Piers has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Piers around the world

Where Piers 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
    1996–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1974–1974
    #297
    in 1974
  • France
    1991–1991
    #3,063
    in 1991
  • Canada
    1995–2019
    #2,583
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1949–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Piers by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,403
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,084
Best rank ever
#4,127
1952
Peak year
2013
20 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
295
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Piers

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

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Sibling names for Piers

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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