Pier
Pier is a girl's name that peaked in 1957, when it was the 1,842nd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 430 Piers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Pier boys named Pier
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 483
- Estimated living today
- 430
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 1,842nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1953
- Girls / boys
- 364 / 119
How old the living Piers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 483 babies given the name since 1953, about 430 are alive — 88 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Piers
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975)Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual
- Pier Luigi Bersani (born 1951)Italian politician
- Pier Angeli (1932–1971)actress
- Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979)Italian engineer
- Pier Luigi Farnese (1503–1547)Duke of Parma
- Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480–1520)Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel
- Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845–1920)Italian botanist and mycologist
- Pier Ferdinando Casini (born 1955)Italian politician
People named Pier with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Pier is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Pier peaked:
Pier elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Pier | 85 | 4,264th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Pier against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.