# Pease (surname)

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

A surname originating as an occupation for a seller or grower of peas.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 12,937 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,790 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 23,865 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.8% (12,828 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pease 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) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pease in the United States, Canada and Australia.

## People named Pease

- Al Pease, British-born Canadian racing driver
- Elisha M. Pease, American politician (1812-1883)
- Allan Pease, Australian motivational speaker
- Robert Allen Pease, American electronics engineer and technical author
- Donald J. Pease, American politician (1931–2002)

## Similar surnames

Peace, Paes, Peak, Peake, Peachey, Pascoe, Pesce, Paske, Page, Peck, 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.