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The PEACHEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,154 9458 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 191 19965 0 4
Change since 1880 +2963 +10507 +N/A +8
Other Countries
Australia 697 2318 0.004 43
United Kingdom 2,087 2851 0.005 45
Top States for PEACHEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,385 1659 0.011 113
California 124 28055 0.000 4
Florida 122 20995 0.001 8
Indiana 111 9938 0.002 18
Ohio 110 18001 0.001 10
Top States for PEACHEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,385 1659 0.011 113
Washington DC 14 6040 0.002 24
Maine 29 7934 0.002 23
Indiana 111 9938 0.002 18
Idaho 23 11534 0.002 18

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PEACHEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PEACHEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PEACHEY in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PEACHEY by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PEACHEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PEACHEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PEACHEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PEACHEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 73 2.31
White (Hispanic) 38 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 25 0.79
Mixed Race 14 0.44
Asian/Pacific 6 0.19
White (Caucasian) 2,998 95.05

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PEACHEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PEACHEY in historical publications

PEACHEY. Doubtless the same as the baronial name Peche, latinized in charters De Peccato. That the latter was pronounced as a dissyllable, Peche, is shown by the painted glass in a window at Lullingstoue, CO. Kent, where the arms of Sir John Peche are surrounded by branches of a peach-tree, fvucted, and each peach, to complete the rebus, is inscribed with the letter E — Peach-e. See Stothard's Monumental Effigies. The modern arms of Peachey are evidently derived from those of Peche.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PEACHEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEACHEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PEACHEY

The following words are slight variants of PEACHEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.