Meaning and history
French form of Peter, this name has been consistently popular in France since the 13th century but dropped out of the top 100 names in 2017. It has been borne by notable figures including the philosopher and theologian Pierre Abélard (1079–1142), the scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), and the physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906), who discovered radioactivity with his wife Marie.
20062006: 185 births, rank #997
2007: 192 births, rank #1,005
2008: 203 births, rank #979
2009: 191 births, rank #1,020
2010: 211 births, rank #949
20112011: 198 births, rank #987
2012: 192 births, rank #1,017
2013: 205 births, rank #974
2014: 203 births, rank #1,008
2015: 170 births, rank #1,124
20162016: 173 births, rank #1,124
2017: 157 births, rank #1,186
2018: 194 births, rank #1,045
2019: 184 births, rank #1,085
2020: 177 births, rank #1,111
20212021: 196 births, rank #1,081
2022: 178 births, rank #1,156
2023: 177 births, rank #1,167
2024: 159 births, rank #1,243
20252025: 159 births, rank #1,252
Pierre rose from #989 to #977 for boys between 2011 and 2013. Its highest annual birth count came in 1988, with 475 births.