How common is the surname Pea?

1,034 people in the United States had the surname Pea in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 298,593 Americans. It ranked 24,260th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pea?

In the 2010 Census, 43% of people named Pea identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 32% as white (not Hispanic).

Is the surname Pea getting more or less common?

More common. 920 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,034 in 2010, up 12%.

The surname Pea

A surname, carried by 1,034 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pea is more common than 85% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,034 people named Pea in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 298,593 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 920.

#24,260

rank among US surnames

1,034

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+12.4%

change since 2000 (was #25,272)

Who is named Pea

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

43% of people named Pea identified as Black (not Hispanic), 32% as white (not Hispanic) and 14% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Black (not Hispanic) 43%
White (not Hispanic) 32%
Asian and Pacific Islander 14%
Two or more races 5.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Surnames that sound like Pea

Pea has the Soundex code P000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P000.

Questions

How common is the surname Pea?: 1,034 people in the United States had the surname Pea in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 298,593 Americans. It ranked 24,260th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pea?: In the 2010 Census, 43% of people named Pea identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 32% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Pea getting more or less common?: More common. 920 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,034 in 2010, up 12%.
What are other spellings of Pea?: Pee.