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The PECKHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,937 6349 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 2,591 2353 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +2346 -3996 -0.003 -34
Other Countries
Australia 267 5799 0.002 16
United Kingdom 1,289 4267 0.003 28
Top States for PECKHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 532 5230 0.002 16
New York 399 4736 0.002 21
Massachusetts 398 2202 0.006 63
Florida 305 6322 0.002 19
Michigan 301 3916 0.003 30
Top States for PECKHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 256 490 0.024 244
Massachusetts 398 2202 0.006 63
Connecticut 189 2310 0.006 55
New Hampshire 67 2737 0.005 54
Vermont 32 3117 0.005 53

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

Classification and Origin of PECKHAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PECKHAM 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 PECKHAM 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 PECKHAM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 80 1.62
Mixed Race 54 1.09
Asian/Pacific 26 0.53
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.43
Black/African American 19 0.38
White (Caucasian) 4,737 95.95

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

Meaning of PECKHAM in historical publications

PECKHAM. The ancient family so called, derived their name from the parish of Peckham in Kent. There are armorial grounds for supposing that they sprang from the family of St. Nicholas, as the latter are presumed to have done from the Norman De Says. See Curios, of Heraldi-y, p. 300. Archbishop Peckham, who died in 1272, may be regarded as the founder of the fortunes of a family which ramified very widely, especially in Kent and Sussex. Tlie member of it who made a deposition in the celebrated Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, wrote himself James du Pecham. Roll, vol. ii. p. 435. Peccam is an older, and Packham a more recent, spelling.

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 PECKHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PECKHAM.

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 PECKHAM

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