The PEER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,763	8118	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	984	5527	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+2779	-2591	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	47	26938	0	3
United Kingdom	240	14729	0.001	5

Top States for PEER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	325	6264	0.002	17
New Jersey	265	3840	0.003	31
California	259	10517	0.001	8
Florida	258	7832	0.002	16
Michigan	222	5744	0.002	22
Top States for PEER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	39	2758	0.006	64
West Virginia	100	2446	0.006	55
Idaho	46	4239	0.004	36
New Jersey	265	3840	0.003	31
Wisconsin	168	5063	0.003	31

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

Classification and Origin of PEER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	112	2.98
White (Hispanic)	90	2.39
Asian/Pacific	62	1.65
Mixed Race	48	1.28
Native American/Alaskan	16	0.43
White (Caucasian)	3,435	91.28

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

Similar names to PEER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEER.

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.