Pierson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A patronymic surname transferred from the given name
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Pierson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 13K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pierson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 458 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
101,836 named Pearson, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A patronymic surname transferred from the given name.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Pierson, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pierson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 101,836as Pearson | 1 in 3.3K | 102K | Pierson | 458 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 609 | — | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 56K | Pierson | 127 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Pierson | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Pierson | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 3 | Pierson | 111 |
| BE Belgium | — | 2,225as Pirson | 1 in 5.3K | 2.2K | Pierson | 49 |
| SG Singapore | #791 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Pierson | 8 |
| GY Guyana | — | 371as Pearson | 1 in 2K | 371 | — | 1 |
101,836 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling pearson. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Pierson is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘son of Piers’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dorothea Viehmannb. 1755DEnot in their usual nameGerman market merchant and fairy tale teller, contributor to the Brothers Grimm's collection of fairy tales (1755–1816)
- Nicolaas Piersonb. 1839NLDutch politician (1839-1909)
- Betty Parsonsb. 1900USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist, art dealer and collector (1900-1982)
- Frank Piersonb. 1925USAmerican film director (1925-2012)
- Kate Piersonb. 1948USAmerican singer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist
- Geoff Piersonb. 1949USAmerican actor
- John Piersonb. 1954USFilmmaker, film producer
- Julia Piersonb. 1959USAmerican law enforcement official
- Emma Piersonb. 1981GBBritish actress
- DC Piersonb. 1984UScomedian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 28K | #1,254 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 28K | #1,158 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 27K | #1,292 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 883 | #1,567 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 842 | #1,644 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 782 | #8,074 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 609 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pierson mean, and where does it come from?
- A patronymic surname transferred from the given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pierson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 102 thousand people named Pearson, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pierson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 101,836 people named Pearson in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Pierson compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Pierson is the 791st most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piersonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pierson” — the 791st most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.