# Peach (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/peach/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,815 |
| US rank (2010) | 6,968 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 64,122 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.7% (4,513 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from French péché (“sin”). Compare Peachey, Petch. * As a German surname, Americanized from Pietsch.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Peach in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Peach in New Zealand.

## People named Peach

- Blair Peach, Anti-Nazi protestor killed by the police in 1979

## Similar surnames

Peachey, Patch, Pech, Piech, Peck, Peace, Peak, Pasch, Pac, Page, Pace, Pugh.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.