Peace

At the 2020 census, 8,538 Americans bore the surname Peace — 4,037th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 35,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,538
Rank: 4,037th
How common: 1 in 35,000
Per 100,000: 2.9

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Peace described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.6%
Black, not Hispanic 22.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Peace

James Peace (born 1963)British composer
David Peace (born 1967)English novelist
Babalola Chinedum Peace (born 2000)Nigerian pharmacist
Heather Peace (born 1975)British singer/songwriter and actress

People named Peace with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Peace

Also a first name

Peace has been given to 1,109 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.