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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.