The surname McPeters
A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 1,303 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex M213
Origin
Scottish Gaelic origin
Variant of McPheeters.
One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,303 people named McPeters in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 236,950 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,240.
Who is named McPeters
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
76% of people named McPeters identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 76%
- Black (not Hispanic) 16%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
- Two or more races 3.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like McPeters
McPeters has the Soundex code M213, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M213.
Other Scottish Gaelic surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname McPeters come from?
- Variant of McPheeters.
- How common is the surname McPeters?
- 1,303 people in the United States had the surname McPeters in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 236,950 Americans. It ranked 20,394th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname McPeters?
- In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named McPeters identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname McPeters getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,240 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,303 in 2010, up 5.1%.