# Peale (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/peale/  
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 | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 301 |
| US rank (2010) | 65,782 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 1,025,733 people |
| Change since 2000 | -24.4% (398 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Peale 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) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Peale in the United States.

## People named Peale

- Norman Vincent Peale, American writer and minister (1898-1993)
- Charles Willson Peale, American painter (1741–1827)
- Titian Peale, American ornithologist, entomologist, photographer, artist and explorer (1799-1885)
- Rembrandt Peale, American painter (1778-1860)

## Similar surnames

Pauley, Peel, Pell, Peele, Pal, Pelley, Paley, Peil, Peal, Powell, Paul, Poole.

## 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.