Pierson is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Pierson
No. of characters: 7
Origin: United States
Meaning: This is one of many diminutives of Christian name Peter, Pierresson contraction. The surname is very common in Lorraine (especially 54, but 55, 57, 88).

How popular is Pierson?

Pierson is common in United States.

Pierson is ranked 11840 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Pierson bearers increased by 0.9123693 per cent in 2010 US census to 27983 since 2000, the surname slipped by 96 spots and ranked at 1254. The last name was found in around 95 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 84.3 86.02
Black 10.02 9.81
Hispanic or Latino 2.65 1.84
Others 2.01 1.46
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.54 0.44
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.48 0.42
Pierson is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while New Caledonia is ahead in terms of density. Around 45086 people have been found who wears Pierson as their family name. Pierson is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
541,660 Russia8
5,565 Costa Rica8
7,031 China6
13,220 Thailand6
35,789 Turkey3
15,956 Venezuela3
9,097 Wales3
108,034 Italy3
24,547 Saudi Arabia3
21,529 Singapore2
5,443 Dominican Republic2
34,572 Israel2
5,630 Northern Ireland2
95,312 Argentina2
15,591 Burkina Faso2
9,185 Hong Kong2
38,063 Mauritania1
25,721 Egypt1
53,033 Nigeria1
12,741 Ecuador1
2,037 Cayman Islands1
17,575 Kuwait1
123,175 Tanzania1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
165,773 Belarus1
10,190 Bahrain1
50,549 Georgia1
28,746 Algeria1
6,688 Malawi1
28,365 Kenya1
2,309 Monaco1
6,212 Jamaica1
47,891 Norway1
20,172 Hungary1
29,046 Japan1
2,613 The Bahamas1
492,292 Ukraine1
19,533 Uruguay1
7,790 Zambia1
2,578 Guam1
2,232 French Polynesia1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
26,164 Sweden36
53,193 Spain35
8,504 Ireland33
2,622 Nicaragua29
277,692 Indonesia21
23,914 Denmark20
435,402 India19
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
49,486 South Africa91
13,957 Switzerland81
37,331 Netherlands58
8,843 Scotland53
Countries with hundreds of Pierson:
7,158 England963
2,019 Belgium787
17,127 Germany605
10,846 Mexico419
30,822 Philippines387
31,115 Brazil382
8,684 Australia325
3,758 New Zealand204
305 Luxembourg132
167 New Caledonia103
Countries with thousands of Pierson:
971 France6,209
3,937 Canada1,167
Countries with ten thousands of Pierson:
1,166 United States32,845
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

John Pierson worked as workman and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 40 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Nonantum and arrived on April 18, 1846. Martha Pierson, 13 years old John Pierson, Martha Pierson (11), Sarah Pierson, Edward Pierson, Ellen Pierson (20) Maid, 20 years old Catherine Pierson, Sarah Pierson, aged 23, and 14 other Pierson around 72.73% of whom were workman migrated to US.

Comments

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Portia Demaris
Pierson is a contracted form of pierresson, name locates in the Champagne and the Walloon Region, stone derivative (with double suffix esson), baptismal name from the Latin petrus which means rock.

Pierson Namesakes

  • Arthur Tappan Pierson, Writer
  • Aimee Pierson, Film producer
  • Aimee Pierson, Film producer
  • Alethia Pierson, Kiki Haynes' sister
  • Arabella Lorraine Pierson, Author
  • Anne Pierson Wiese, Poet
  • Geoff Pierson, Actor
  • Jack Pierson, Photographer
  • Jan Pierson, Author
  • John Pierson, Baseball player

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