Pearse

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Pearse: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Pearse: Recorded since 1965, it reached #85 in 2004, and it stood at #509 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
98times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#85highest recorded position
19groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2017

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2863
1997	#1578
1999	#2943
2003	#1962
2004	#3009
2007	#4333
2012	#3416
2013	#4685
2016	#4810
2017	#4812

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 59 of the 61 years from 1965 to 2025.

In 2024: #187 among boys in Northern Ireland, #520 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #535 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1965–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1965
First recorded at #222 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1965 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #85 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 1997–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #509 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Pearse appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 59 years beginning in 1965, and has registered 578 births with the name.

Pearse across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Pearse's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#222 (1965)	#93 (1966)	#509 (2025)	59 of 61	578 (1965–2025)	44 (1966)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#113 (1997)	#85 (2004)	#187 (2024)	28 of 28	512 (1997–2024)	32 (2004)
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#1578 (1997)	#4812 (2017)	10 of 22	41 (1996–2017)	7 (1997)

Pearse by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Pearse in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960sbusiest	73	5 of 10	15
1970s	82	10 of 10	8
1980s	62	9 of 10	7
1990s	83	9 of 10	9
2000s	116	10 of 10	12
2010s	124	10 of 10	12
2020s	38	6 of 10	6

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 15 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1965 and 1966, when recorded births rose by 40, from 4 to 44.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Pearse appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #85 in Northern Ireland in 2004.

Pearse's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#187	11	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#221	9	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#221	9	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#166	14	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#169	13	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#209	10	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#171	14	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#132	20	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#166	15	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#187	12	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#191	12	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#146	18	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#112	27	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#155	17	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#123	25	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#140	19	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#129	22	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#143	19	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#110	25	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#111	23	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#85	32	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#119	19	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#103	23	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#100	25	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#107	22	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#134	14	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#99	23	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#113	20	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#516	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#498	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#381	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#335	12	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	10	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#356	11	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#224	24	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#294	15	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#302	15	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#352	11	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#366	11	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	7	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	12	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#412	8	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#226	19	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#354	7	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#247	12	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#203	15	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#228	12	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#292	7	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#209	12	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#196	12	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#203	10	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#224	11	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#200	12	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#206	11	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#237	7	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#205	10	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#202	10	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#263	5	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#229	7	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#272	4	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#203	10	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#269	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#318	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#237	6	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#179	13	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#206	10	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	9	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#176	15	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#231	7	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#179	14	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#241	6	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	4	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#218	9	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#268	5	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#254	5	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#204	9	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#206	8	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#206	8	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#207	6	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#164	11	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#93	44	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1965 and 2025, ranked in 60 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #85, first reached in 2004.

It held a top-100 place in 4 years.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1966.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 59 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Pearce · #190, 24y
Pearl · #204, 53y
Pebbles · #2410, 19y
Peder · #77, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Chris · #87, 59y
Virginia · #82, 57y
Aileen · #81, 62y
Orlagh · #89, 57y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Fintan · #85, 61y
Giuseppe · #85, 36y
Quentin · #85, 36y
Vilma · #85, 53y

Pearse was ranked #85 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Pearse and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Pearse without appearing here.

Pearse moved ahead of

Connor Compare
In 2024 they stood at #520 and #302 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #509 and #829.
Kenneth Compare
In 2023 they stood at #657 and #572 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2024 that had become #520 and #785.
Phillip Compare
In 2000 they stood at #224 and #209 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2001 that had become #209 and #409.
Philip Compare
In 2015 they stood at #187 and #187 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2016 that had become #166 and #358.

Moved ahead of Pearse

Isak Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1962 and #3467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #4333 and #1440.
Madison Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3416 and #3987 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #4685 and #3315.
Cooper Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1578 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2943 and #1850.
Gustav Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1962 and #2189 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3009 and #2070.

Moved the opposite way to Pearse

Aaron Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pearse went from #222 to #509 while Aaron went from #222 to #71.
Adam Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pearse went from #222 to #509 while Adam went from #157 to #20.
Alexander Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pearse went from #222 to #509 while Alexander went from #115 to #55.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pearse went from #222 to #509 while Benjamin went from #148 to #83.

Moved the same way as Pearse

Alfred Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pearse went from #222 to #509 and Alfred from #167 to #286.
Bruce Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pearse went from #222 to #509 and Bruce from #222 to #676.
Denis Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pearse went from #222 to #509 and Denis from #24 to #232.
George Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pearse went from #222 to #509 and George from #56 to #112.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #85 in Northern Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Pearse

Pearse at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Pearse across 3 official records

Pearse by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Pearse appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Pearse

Pearse and the names beside it

Pearse moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Pearse

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Pearse at a glance

Pearse across 3 official records

Pearse by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Pearse appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Pearse

Pearse and the names beside it

Pearse moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Pearse

Moved the opposite way to Pearse

Moved the same way as Pearse