Pearson
Pearson is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 47 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 470.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201958 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1898
- 1,647people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,521 boys have been named Pearson in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 58 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2010s alone account for 29%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 126 girls have also been given it, 7.7% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Pearson | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 50 | |
| 1920s | 69 | |
| 1930s | 48 | |
| 1940s | 25 | |
| 1950s | 18 | |
| 1960s | 6 | |
| 1970s | 16 | |
| 1980s | 73 | |
| 1990s | 178 | |
| 2000s | 362 | |
| 2010s | 447 | |
| 2020s | 219 |
In 2019, its biggest year
Pearson was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Pearson
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Julianpeak 2017
- Laytonpeak 2015
- Jehupeak 2024
- Julienpeak 2009
- Farispeak 2017
- Emiliopeak 2024
- Collierpeak 2013
- Romeopeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.