girls:
364 births since 1953
#5352 (6th percentile)
boys:
114 births since 1954
#4472 (2nd percentile)
overall:
478 births since 1953
#7261 (6th percentile)
The name Pier is the #7,261 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 478 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 6.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,352 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 364 births since 1953. For boys, it ranks #4,472 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 114 births since 1954.
Pier first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (1953 for girls and 1954 for boys). Birth data for Pier is available in 39 out of the 66 years between 1953 and 2018 (27 years for girls and 19 years for boys). 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 Pier has been given predominantly to girls, with 76.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2018, 0.0% of babies named Pier were girls. Interestingly, until around 1989, the name was more popular for girls (88.2% girls from 1953 to 1988), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (91.7% boys from 1989 to 2018).
For girls, Pier reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #738) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
For boys, Pier reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pier".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Pier. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.2% confident that Pier is pronounced as pear, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is pihr, at 32.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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