Peng

12,722 people in the United States were counted with the surname Peng in the 2020 census, making it the 2,757th most common in the country. That is about one person in 23,500.

By the numbers

People: 12,722
Rank: 2,757th
How common: 1 in 23,500
Per 100,000: 4.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
White, not Hispanic 2.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Peng

Li Peng (1928–2019)4th Premier of the People's Republic of China
Peng Liyuan (born 1962)Chinese soprano, 2nd spouse of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012
Peng Dehuai (1898–1974)Chinese military leader, Marshal of the People's Republic of China
Peng Shuai (born 1986)Chinese female tennis player
Eddie Peng (born 1982)Taiwan-born Canadian actor and singer
Peng Zhaoqin (born 1968)Chinese-Dutch chess player
Peng Cheng (born 1997)Chinese pair skater
Han Peng (born 1983)Chinese footballer

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

Surnames like Peng

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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.