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The PEOPLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,664 1869 0.007 66
United States (1880 census) 2,969 2064 0.006 59
Change since 1880 +14695 +195 +0.001 +7
Other Countries
Australia 210 7227 0.001 13
United Kingdom 592 7871 0.001 13
Top States for PEOPLES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 2,011 378 0.045 452
Texas 1,619 1685 0.008 78
California 1,140 3053 0.003 34
North Carolina 1,138 1196 0.014 141
Ohio 1,020 1471 0.009 90
Top States for PEOPLES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 2,011 378 0.045 452
Mississippi 526 949 0.018 185
North Carolina 1,138 1196 0.014 141
Washington DC 74 964 0.013 129
Arkansas 324 1226 0.012 121

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

Classification and Origin of PEOPLES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 405 2.29
White (Hispanic) 205 1.16
Native American/Alaskan 87 0.49
Asian/Pacific 32 0.18
Black/African American 9,879 55.93
White (Caucasian) 7,057 39.95

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

Meaning of PEOPLES in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PEOPLES.

Similar names to PEOPLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEOPLES.

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 PEOPLES

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