Peters

At the 2020 census, 132,098 Americans bore the surname Peters — 215th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,263.

By the numbers

People: 132,098
Rank: 215th
How common: 1 in 2,263
Per 100,000: 44.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Black, not Hispanic 10.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Peters

Evan Peters (born 1987)American actor
Bernadette Peters (born 1948)American actress and singer
Martin Peters (1943–2019)English footballer and manager
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813–1890)German-American academic and astronomer
Wilhelm Peters (1815–1883)German naturalist, zoologist and explorer
Russell Peters (born 1970)Canadian comedian, actor
Susan Peters (1921–1952)American actress
Jean Peters (1926–2000)American actress

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

Surnames like Peters

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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.