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    The surname Peal

    A surname, carried by 1,271 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P400

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Peal is more common than 87.2% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Peel.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,271 people named Peal in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 242,915 Americans. That is down 8.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,391.

    #20,780
    rank among US surnames
    1,271
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -8.6%
    change since 2000 (was #18,364)

    Who is named Peal

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

    73% of people named Peal identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Peal

    Peal has the Soundex code P400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P400.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Peal come from?
    Variant of Peel.
    How common is the surname Peal?
    1,271 people in the United States had the surname Peal in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 242,915 Americans. It ranked 20,780th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Peal?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Peal identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Peal getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,391 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,271 in 2010, down 8.6%.