girls:
117 births since 2005
#5599 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1898
#3175 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1898
#6155 (20th percentile)
The name Pearson is the #6,155 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,591 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 20.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,175 (30.7% percentile) for all time with 1,474 births since 1898. For girls, it ranks #5,599 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 117 births since 2005.
Pearson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for boys and 2005 for girls). Birth data for Pearson is available in 77 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023 (77 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Pearson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 89.1% of babies named Pearson were boys.
For boys, Pearson reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 5.8% percentile (ranked #864) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 38 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Pearson ranks #875 for boys (4.0% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 59.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Pearson reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #939) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Pearson ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 47.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pearson".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Pearson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.8% confident that Pearson is pronounced as PEAR-suhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PIHR-suhn, at 23.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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