The surname Peavey
A surname, carried by 2,036 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P100
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,036 people named Peavey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 151,643 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,033.
#14,617
rank among US surnames
2,036
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+0.1%
change since 2000 (was #13,685)
Who is named Peavey
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Peavey identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Peavey has the Soundex code P100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P100.
Questions
- How common is the surname Peavey?
- 2,036 people in the United States had the surname Peavey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 151,643 Americans. It ranked 14,617th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Peavey?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Peavey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Peavey getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,033 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,036 in 2010, up 0.1%.