Poirier

Poirier is the 3,868th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,929 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 33,500.

By the numbers

People: 8,929
Rank: 3,868th
How common: 1 in 33,500
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Borrowed from French Poirier, from poirier (“pear tree”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Poirier

Dustin Poirier (born 1989)American mixed martial artist
Vincent Poirier (born 1993)French basketball player
Ulises Poirier (1897–1977)Chilean footballer
Paul Poirier (born 1991)Canadian ice dancer

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

Surnames like Poirier

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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.