Pierce is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Pierce
No. of characters: 6
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Pierce

How popular is Pierce?

Pierce is common in United States.

Pierce is ranked 3047 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Pierce bearers increased by 1.54706 per cent in 2010 US census to 138629 since 2000, the surname slipped by 16 spots and ranked at 202. The last name was found in around 470 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 80.98 82.72
Black 12.86 12.63
Hispanic or Latino 2.47 1.64
Others 2.1 1.61
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.06 1.01
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.53 0.4
Pierce is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in United States which signifies that it is originated from United States. Around 180057 people have been found who wears Pierce as their family name. Pierce is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
464,493 Indonesia9
83,411 Czech Republic8
6,940 Japan8
1,005 Cayman Islands7
1,377 South Korea6
5,340 Iceland6
475 Turks and Caicos Islands6
24,547 Saudi Arabia3
35,789 Turkey3
10,329 Pakistan3
423 Swaziland3
13,901 Trinidad and Tobago3
3,224 Afghanistan3
1,985 Cambodia3
26,321 Israel3
7,458 Bulgaria3
14,126 Colombia3
14,621 Croatia2
14,408 Uruguay2
20,837 Venezuela2
4,164 Vietnam2
385 American Samoa2
5,936 Bahrain2
40,064 Nigeria2
44,018 Poland2
18,035 Egypt2
6,266 Luxembourg2
10,395 Latvia2
1,118 Isle of Man2
28,083 Romania2
14,004 Hungary2
13,552 Qatar2
26,123 Malaysia2
7,198 Maldives1
1,819 Laos1
1,970 Grenada1
2,374 Bermuda1
6,033 Benin1
42,479 Greece1
37,493 Austria1
1,542 Andorra1
2,057 Myanmar1
28,746 Algeria1
7,847 Albania1
50,549 Georgia1
14,373 Jordan1
7,941 Guatemala1
25,746 Finland1
24,421 Slovakia1
3,350 Fiji1
3,993 El Salvador1
353 Cook Islands1
4,435 Togo1
2,505 Congo1
340 Comoros1
215 Palau1
573 Vanuatu1
8,859 Iraq1
10,958 Bangladesh1
3,952 Yemen1
15,705 Cameroon1
48,575 Azerbaijan1
799 British Virgin Islands1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
37,591 Belgium37
18,843 Chile36
20,103 Norway33
587 Guam32
325,561 India31
9,620 Singapore30
17,489 Denmark30
1,937 China23
3,071 Costa Rica22
4,647 Thailand21
1,163 Jersey17
385 Northern Mariana Islands13
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
2,516 Hong Kong95
28,655 Spain89
14,725 Peru85
2,622 Puerto Rico82
517 Barbados78
791 Belize75
2,783 Jamaica71
5,314 Kuwait70
6,628 Portugal65
16,052 Sweden58
37,331 Netherlands58
19,965 Switzerland54
Countries with hundreds of Pierce:
350 Wales959
11,469 Germany874
1,163 New Zealand625
8,350 Mexico602
23,687 France416
13,426 Kenya314
21,011 Argentina254
1,368 Taiwan232
1,589 Panama228
3,011 Scotland217
1,341 Northern Ireland215
49,962 Brazil207
50,581 Italy146
7,901 United Arab Emirates122
Countries with thousands of Pierce:
1,277 England6,147
1,113 Canada4,512
1,354 Australia2,319
2,972 South Africa2,173
9,586 Philippines1,547
581 Ireland1,277
Countries with hundred thousands of Pierce:
184 United States155,324
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Henry Pierce worked as workman and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 20 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Cornet and arrived on May 18, 1846. 46 years old Michael Pierce, Catherine Pierce (32) Immigrant, Immigrant Margret Pierce, Elizabeth Pierce, aged 7, 18 years old Eliza Pierce, 18 years old John Pierce, Sarah Pierce, aged 16, Jane Pierce, aged 15, and 133 other Pierce around 50.72% of whom were workman while others worked as servant and farmer, miner, mechanic, smith, carpenter, pensioner, puddler migrated to US.

Comments

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Wilfredo Givens
 The origin of the name is Anglo-Saxon etymology comes from the medieval name piers person behind that name is Greek this name is rooted in the Christian mythology is known as stone simon but Jesus named him kefa (stone in Aramaic ) dictating his future role you is stone and on this rock I will build my church and Aramaic kefa was translated into Greek petros = stone.

Pierce Namesakes

  • Ian Pierce, from 2015 horror, mystery flick Savage High, who characterized Lumbardo.
  • Heather Pierce, from 2012 comedy and drama movie May & December, who played the Cj.
  • In 2014, Veronica Pierce played the role of Wonder Woman and Diana Prince in sci-fi flick Wonder Woman.
  • Ernest Pierce, from 2016 horror flick Witchcraft 16: Hollywood Coven, who played Jamal.

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