Peacock

Peacock is the 1,693rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,726 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,400.

By the numbers

People: 20,726
Rank: 1,693rd
How common: 1 in 14,400
Per 100,000: 6.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

From peacock, a nickname for a vain and conceited person.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.4%
Black, not Hispanic 10.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
Alan Peacock (1937–2025)English footballer
Gary Peacock (1935–2020)American jazz double-bassist
George Peacock (1791–1858)English mathematician and Anglican cleric
Bertie Peacock (1928–2004)Northern Irish association football player and manager
Annette Peacock (born 1941)American Jazz composer
Trevor Peacock (1931–2021)British stage and television character actor
William Peacock (1891–1948)Scottish water polo player

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

Surnames like Peacock

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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.