Pierre
Meaning of Pierre
Pierre is a traditional and timeless name for boys. With its French origin, Pierre brings an air of sophistication and elegance to any child. Pronounced as pye-AIR (/pjɛʁ/), this name has a smooth and melodic sound. Pierre is also closely related to the English variation Peter. In recent years, Pierre has maintained moderate popularity in the United States. According to data from the past few decades, it consistently ranks within the top 1000 names for newborn boys. This historical usage demonstrates that Pierre is a classic choice that stands the test of time.
Pronunciation
French
- Pronunced as pye-AIR (/pjɛʁ/)
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Notable People Named Pierre
| Pierre Trudeau - Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada in non-consecutive terms from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984. |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, and philosopher known for his Darwinian outlook and influential theological writings. |
| Pierre Bourdieu was a renowned French sociologist and public intellectual known for his influential contributions to the sociology of education, theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics. |
| Pierre de Coubertin, a French educator and historian, is renowned as the father of the modern Olympic Games and co-founder of the International Olympic Committee. |
| Pierre Curie was a pioneering French physicist who, along with his wife Marie Skłodowska–Curie and Henri Becquerel, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their groundbreaking research on radiation phenomena. |
| Pierre Cardin, an Italian-born French fashion designer, was known for his avant-garde and Space Age designs, unisex fashions, and the introduction of the "bubble dress." |
| Pierre de Fermat was a French mathematician known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus, analytic geometry, probability, optics, and number theory, including Fermat's principle for light propagation and Fermat's Last Theorem. |
| Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest, traveller, and historian, known as the first historian of New France. |
| Pierre Hemmer was a Swiss business leader and executive known for his work in the Internet industry, born on March 8, 1950, and passed away on June 26, 2013. |
| Pierre Charron was a French Catholic theologian known for his controversial skepticism and for separating ethics from religion as an independent philosophical discipline in the 17th century. |
| Pierre Louis Dulong was a renowned French physicist and chemist known for his work on the law of Dulong and Petit and his extensive studies in the fields of heat conduction, specific heats of gases, and elasticity of steam. |
| Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. was a prominent United States representative from New York, hailing from the influential Van Cortlandt family. |
| Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was a French-American writer, economist, publisher, and government official who migrated to the United States during the French Revolution. |
| Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator, and artist, known for being the eldest son of artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and the older brother of the painter Balthus. |
| Pierre d'Aubusson was a Grand Master of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and a strong adversary of the Ottoman Empire. |
