Peck

Peck is the 904th most common surname in the United States, shared by 38,039 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,858.

By the numbers

People: 38,039
Rank: 904th
How common: 1 in 7,858
Per 100,000: 12.7

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, variant of Speake with loss of the initial letter.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Peck

Gregory Peck (1916–2003)American actor
Josh Peck (born 1986)American actor and comedian
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005)American psychiatrist
Ethan Peck (born 1986)American actor
Raoul Peck (born 1953)film director
Bob Peck (1945–1999)British actor
Charles Horton Peck (1833–1917)American mycologist
Annie Smith Peck (1850–1935)American mountain climber and professor

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

Surnames like Peck

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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.