Peebles

8,274 people in the United States were counted with the surname Peebles in the 2020 census, making it the 4,152nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 36,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,274
Rank: 4,152nd
How common: 1 in 36,100
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

The surname is Scottish and derived from the town.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.1%
Black, not Hispanic 27.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Peebles

Jim Peebles (born 1935)Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
Mario Van Peebles (born 1957)American actor and producer
Melvin Van Peebles (1932–2021)American filmmaker
Ann Peebles (born 1947)American singer and songwriter

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

Surnames like Peebles

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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.