Pierre Forename
235th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 2,400,393 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
Wallis and Futuna
Pierre Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 100% | 819,045 | 1:81 | 8 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 566,567 | 1:130 | 6 |
| Haiti | 100% | 141,888 | 1:76 | 4 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 137,149 | 1:158 | 5 |
| Canada | 100% | 109,214 | 1:303 | 30 |
| Burundi | 100% | 84,723 | 1:117 | 4 |
| Belgium | 100% | 63,304 | 1:182 | 14 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 53,177 | 1:214 | 26 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 44,741 | 1:528 | 87 |
| Central African Republic | - | 35,019 | 1:129 | 21 |
| Benin | 100% | 34,673 | 1:305 | 11 |
| United States | 100% | 34,613 | 1:10,474 | 1,108 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 23,908 | 1:344 | 72 |
| Burkina Faso | 99% | 17,240 | 1:1,066 | 181 |
| South Africa | 100% | 16,038 | 1:3,400 | 649 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 15,374 | 1:6,346 | 1,003 |
| Guinea | 100% | 14,043 | 1:844 | 113 |
| Ivory Coast | 98% | 13,119 | 1:1,759 | 196 |
| Togo | - | 11,043 | 1:656 | 73 |
| Gabon | 100% | 10,624 | 1:177 | 9 |
| Mozambique | - | 10,560 | 1:2,580 | 565 |
| Congo | 99% | 10,074 | 1:497 | 73 |
| Mali | 100% | 9,831 | 1:1,727 | 222 |
| Senegal | 100% | 9,763 | 1:1,494 | 229 |
| Brazil | 100% | 9,138 | 1:23,445 | 2,100 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 7,391 | 1:2,287 | 452 |
| Sweden | 100% | 7,083 | 1:1,392 | 235 |
| Germany | 100% | 6,603 | 1:14,642 | 818 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 6,573 | 1:1,587 | 258 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 6,148 | 1:92 | 6 |
| Morocco | 100% | 5,432 | 1:6,323 | 607 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 4,871 | 1:266 | 11 |
| Gambia | - | 4,306 | 1:447 | 97 |
| Angola | - | 4,184 | 1:6,445 | 896 |
| Sudan | 100% | 4,165 | 1:9,077 | 1,203 |
| England | 100% | 3,857 | 1:14,416 | 1,016 |
| Chad | 100% | 2,966 | 1:4,585 | 691 |
| Thailand | 100% | 2,614 | 1:26,804 | 3,443 |
| Poland | 99% | 2,592 | 1:14,671 | 581 |
| Egypt | 100% | 2,407 | 1:38,181 | 2,410 |
| Ghana | 100% | 2,247 | 1:12,010 | 1,092 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 2,148 | 1:530 | 147 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 2,113 | 1:128 | 10 |
| French Polynesia | - | 2,021 | 1:138 | 7 |
| Australia | - | 1,981 | 1:6,894 | 787 |
| Peru | 100% | 1,733 | 1:18,345 | 1,528 |
| Malta | - | 1,506 | 1:285 | 53 |
| Philippines | 88% | 1,296 | 1:81,797 | 4,936 |
| Mexico | 99% | 822 | 1:151,027 | 3,124 |
| Portugal | - | 802 | 1:12,981 | 730 |
| Italy | 99% | 775 | 1:78,790 | 1,662 |
| Spain | 100% | 769 | 1:60,507 | 2,223 |
| New Zealand | - | 712 | 1:6,371 | 815 |
| Denmark | - | 703 | 1:8,036 | 745 |
| Chile | 93% | 688 | 1:25,592 | 1,250 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 641 | 1:48,070 | 5,572 |
| Israel | 98% | 497 | 1:16,907 | 1,722 |
| Vanuatu | - | 477 | 1:549 | 123 |
| Malawi | - | 465 | 1:36,801 | 2,710 |
| Bangladesh | - | 458 | 1:348,169 | 14,530 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 429 | 1:48,483 | 5,248 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 419 | 1:72,081 | 3,684 |
| Wallis and Futuna | 100% | 413 | 1:33 | 6 |
| China | - | 403 | 1:3,389,717 | 49,383 |
| Saint Martin | - | 384 | 1:93 | 26 |
| Ecuador | - | 369 | 1:48,040 | 1,736 |
| Austria | 100% | 351 | 1:24,257 | 1,008 |
| Japan | - | 343 | 1:373,137 | 9,588 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 316 | 1:293 | 32 |
| Norway | 100% | 310 | 1:16,556 | 1,098 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 309 | 1:834,834 | 54,554 |
| Ireland | 100% | 292 | 1:15,902 | 900 |
| Qatar | 100% | 268 | 1:8,842 | 1,436 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 266 | 1:26,887 | 2,648 |
| Samoa | - | 228 | 1:856 | 261 |
| Hong Kong | - | 209 | 1:37,094 | 2,424 |
| Argentina | 57% | 208 | 1:205,641 | 2,493 |
| Bahamas | - | 205 | 1:1,948 | 444 |
| Somalia | - | 199 | 1:67,969 | 3,157 |
| Singapore | 100% | 190 | 1:33,090 | 5,903 |
| Monaco | 100% | 184 | 1:209 | 11 |
| Panama | 100% | 180 | 1:21,703 | 2,091 |
| Colombia | 100% | 179 | 1:266,921 | 5,462 |
| Bahrain | - | 178 | 1:7,577 | 1,232 |
| Algeria | - | 169 | 1:225,898 | 3,349 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 167 | 1:182,335 | 10,844 |
| Greece | 100% | 155 | 1:70,545 | 2,176 |
| Suriname | 100% | 148 | 1:3,735 | 834 |
| Jamaica | - | 146 | 1:19,748 | 1,650 |
| Kenya | - | 141 | 1:328,419 | 10,983 |
| Scotland | 100% | 139 | 1:38,492 | 1,371 |
| Djibouti | - | 130 | 1:7,044 | 654 |
| India | 100% | 128 | 1:9,491,234 | 290,599 |
| Swaziland | - | 128 | 1:10,158 | 1,360 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 120 | 1:80 | 15 |
| Romania | 100% | 117 | 1:171,384 | 6,271 |
| Dominica | - | 114 | 1:662 | 144 |
| Saint Lucia | 99% | 114 | 1:1,560 | 283 |
| Estonia | 100% | 106 | 1:12,409 | 1,286 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 97 | 1:1,830,560 | 37,732 |
| Niger | 92% | 96 | 1:199,833 | 5,662 |
| Kuwait | - | 95 | 1:39,845 | 3,619 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 94 | 1:674 | 161 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 92 | 1:573,786 | 15,417 |
| Russia | 97% | 83 | 1:1,737,755 | 12,313 |
| Zambia | - | 82 | 1:193,351 | 6,865 |
| Wales | 100% | 78 | 1:39,671 | 1,546 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 72 | 1:1,286,432 | 2,881 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 71 | 1:226,879 | 3,194 |
| Uganda | 96% | 69 | 1:593,579 | 12,776 |
| Namibia | - | 63 | 1:38,162 | 2,659 |
| Tunisia | - | 59 | 1:11,473 | 1,089 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 59 | 1:58,096 | 1,951 |
| Finland | 100% | 56 | 1:97,914 | 2,370 |
| Costa Rica | 98% | 55 | 1:86,690 | 2,977 |
| Guyana | 100% | 53 | 1:14,401 | 1,961 |
| Czechia | 100% | 50 | 1:213,123 | 1,642 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 50 | 1:694 | 139 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 49 | 1:144,667 | 358 |
| Lebanon | - | 47 | 1:119,736 | 3,476 |
| Barbados | - | 43 | 1:6,739 | 882 |
| Hungary | 100% | 43 | 1:227,716 | 1,150 |
| Botswana | 100% | 42 | 1:52,011 | 4,968 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 40 | 1:594,242 | 30,447 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 39 | 1:162 | 29 |
| South Korea | - | 39 | 1:142,165 | 6,254 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 39 | 1:2,814 | 533 |
| Croatia | 100% | 37 | 1:113,975 | 2,639 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 37 | 1:95,954 | 1,863 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 36 | 1:37,817 | 3,714 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 33 | 1:182,374 | 4,876 |
| Jersey | - | 31 | 1:3,225 | 462 |
| Mongolia | - | 31 | 1:94,671 | 6,256 |
| Liberia | 89% | 29 | 1:152,140 | 5,855 |
| Cambodia | - | 28 | 1:581,190 | 11,641 |
| Syria | - | 28 | 1:689,503 | 2,968 |
| Honduras | 100% | 27 | 1:326,573 | 6,025 |
| Andorra | - | 26 | 1:3,188 | 334 |
| Paraguay | 94% | 26 | 1:278,339 | 3,780 |
| Aruba | - | 25 | 1:4,151 | 831 |
| Curaçao | - | 24 | 1:6,492 | 596 |
| Afghanistan | 50% | 21 | 1:1,553,501 | 15,583 |
| Bermuda | - | 21 | 1:3,087 | 575 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 20 | 1:771,191 | 29,892 |
| Iraq | - | 19 | 1:1,843,045 | 11,423 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 18 | 1:5,522 | 1,017 |
| Guam | - | 17 | 1:9,450 | 1,317 |
| Belize | 100% | 16 | 1:22,144 | 2,400 |
| El Salvador | - | 15 | 1:422,786 | 4,141 |
| Iceland | 100% | 14 | 1:26,144 | 1,689 |
| Turkey | 100% | 14 | 1:5,557,265 | 23,905 |
| Latvia | - | 12 | 1:167,970 | 2,495 |
| Ukraine | - | 12 | 1:3,791,659 | 7,438 |
| Bulgaria | - | 10 | 1:699,039 | 9,190 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 10 | 1:87,108 | 2,498 |
| Greenland | - | 10 | 1:5,637 | 682 |
| Macau | - | 10 | 1:60,821 | 609 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 10 | 1:19,435,768 | 100,312 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 10 | 1:815,231 | 57,976 |
| Gibraltar | - | 9 | 1:3,793 | 625 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 9 | 1:192,024 | 110 |
| Mauritania | - | 9 | 1:455,027 | 9,682 |
| Myanmar | - | 9 | 1:5,772,030 | 1,432 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 9 | 1:21,333 | 1,816 |
| Tajikistan | - | 9 | 1:930,547 | 3,856 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 8 | 1:230,393 | 1,900 |
| Cuba | - | 8 | 1:1,438,319 | 4,450 |
| Laos | - | 8 | 1:823,357 | 879 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 6 | 1:10,216 | 1,399 |
| Grenada | - | 6 | 1:18,021 | 1,808 |
| Serbia | - | 6 | 1:1,190,954 | 6,486 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 6 | 1:885,010 | 3,389 |
| Belarus | - | 5 | 1:1,896,477 | 8,406 |
| Cape Verde | - | 5 | 1:105,830 | 3,482 |
| Iran | - | 5 | 1:15,699,374 | 37,124 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 5 | 1:491,752 | 5,628 |
| Cook Islands | - | 4 | 1:4,538 | 691 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 4 | 1:13,715 | 1,549 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 4 | 1:1,368,218 | 2,487 |
| Armenia | 100% | 3 | 1:972,918 | 8,284 |
| Georgia | 100% | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Yemen | - | 3 | 1:8,765,584 | 9,038 |
| Albania | - | 2 | 1:1,523,285 | 33,816 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Isle of Man | - | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 2 | 1:2,986,638 | 34,954 |
| Lesotho | - | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 2 | 1:18,928 | 806 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| North Macedonia | - | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Maldives | - | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:159,066 | 2,607 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 50% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Montenegro | - | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| San Marino | 100% | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
| Vatican City | - | 1 | 1:123 | 15 |
The alternate forms: Pierré (668), Piérre (611), Pièrre (595), Piërre (18), Pierrë (3), Pîerre (2), Pïerre (1) & Piérré (1) are calculated separately.
Pierre (820,629) may also be a surname.
Pierre Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
French (masculine) - Rock.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A French name, meaning: Form of Peter.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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