Pierre

39,005 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pierre in the 2020 census, making it the 876th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,663.

By the numbers

People: 39,005
Rank: 876th
How common: 1 in 7,663
Per 100,000: 13.1

Where the name comes from

Origin French

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 86.2%
White, not Hispanic 6.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Pierre

Abbé Pierre (1912–2007)French Catholic priest, founder of the Emmaus movement, subject of sexual abuse scandals
Philip J. Pierre (born 1954)Prime Minister of Saint Lucia since 2021
DBC Pierre (born 1961)Australian writer
Christophe Pierre (born 1946)French Cardinal and Archbishop
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715–1794)Catholic cardinal
Sonia Pierre (1963–2011)Haitian-Dominican human rights activist
Aaron Pierre (born 1994)British actor
Barbara Pierre (born 1987)Haitian-born American track and field sprint athlete

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

Surnames like Pierre

Also a first name

Pierre has been given to 19,143 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1988. 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.