Peltier

At the 2020 census, 6,797 Americans bore the surname Peltier — 5,006th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,797
Rank: 5,006th
How common: 1 in 44,000
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin French

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 8.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Peltier

Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785–1845)French physicist
Leonard Peltier (born 1944)Native American activist
Autumn Peltier (born 2004)Anishinaabe water protector
Lee Peltier (born 1986)English association football player
Gaston Peltier (1877–1951)French footballer
Thérèse Peltier (1873–1926)French artist
Pierre-Jean Peltier (born 1984)French rower

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

Surnames like Peltier

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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.