Peirce

3,135 people in the United States were counted with the surname Peirce in the 2020 census, making it the 9,841st most common in the country. That is about one person in 95,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,135
Rank: 9,841st
How common: 1 in 95,300
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

A variant of Piers.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880)American mathematician
Kimberly Peirce (born 1967)American film director
Ernest Peirce (1909–1998)boxer
Evelyn Peirce (1907–1960)American actress

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

Surnames like Peirce

Peiffer

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.