Pearce

Pearce is the 1,150th most common surname in the United States, shared by 29,981 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,970.

By the numbers

People: 29,981
Rank: 1,150th
How common: 1 in 9,970
Per 100,000: 10.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Piers, the medieval vernacular form of Peter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pearce described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.2%
Black, not Hispanic 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Pearce

Guy Pearce (born 1967)Australian actor
Stuart Pearce (born 1962)English footballer and manager
Christie Pearce (born 1975)American soccer player
Bobby Pearce (1905–1976)Australian rower
Alex Pearce (born 1988)Irish footballer
Drew Pearce (born 1975)British writer and director
Steve Pearce (born 1947)1947- American armed forces veteran and politician
Alice Pearce (1917–1966)American actress

People named Pearce with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pearce

Also a first name

Pearce has been given to 1,296 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2010. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.