Peckham

Peckham is the 7,087th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,549 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 65,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,549
Rank: 7,087th
How common: 1 in 65,700
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Probably from Old English Pēac- (“Peak”) + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”)., referring to the River Peck in south London, though the river was likely named after the settlement.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Peckham

John Peckham (1227–1292)Archbishop of Canterbury

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

Surnames like Peckham

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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.