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Pierrette vs Pieter

American parents have registered 1,011 Pieters since 1880, against 240 Pierrettes. Pieter is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Pierrette against Pieter, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Pierrette Pieter

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 89 years in which either name was published, Pieter for 79 years and Pierrette for 10 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Pierrette Pieter
Total US births 2401,011
Most in one year 1124
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 170860
Median age today 6541
Peak year 19551967
Best rank 3,571st girls1,573rd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 19271935
Girls / boys 240 / 00 / 1,011

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Pierrettes alive today are over 65; half the Pieters are over 41. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Pierrette Pieter
France 81,92060

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pierrette and Pieter.