The PIERCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	136,517	186	0.051	506
United States (1880 census)	36,932	131	0.074	739
Change since 1880	+99585	-55	-0.023	-233
Other Countries
Australia	1,233	1342	0.008	75
United Kingdom	4,888	1284	0.011	106

Top States for PIERCE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	10,745	214	0.052	515
California	9,276	338	0.027	274
Florida	6,875	257	0.043	430
North Carolina	5,816	158	0.072	723
Ohio	5,803	183	0.051	511
Top States for PIERCE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,517	100	0.119	1,190
Mississippi	2,669	132	0.094	938
Delaware	728	114	0.093	929
Oklahoma	3,194	100	0.093	926
Alabama	3,964	153	0.089	891

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PIERCE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PIERCE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PIERCE in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PIERCE by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PIERCE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PIERCE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PIERCE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PIERCE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	546	0.4
White (Caucasian)	112,927	82.72
Black/African American	17,242	12.63
Mixed Race	2,198	1.61
White (Hispanic)	2,239	1.64
Native American/Alaskan	1,379	1.01

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PIERCE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to PIERCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PIERCE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.