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    The surname Peck

    An occupational surname, carried by 40,055 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P200

    Peck: #864 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Peck #864, 40,055 people Peck: #864 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Peck #864, 40,055 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Peck is more common than 99.5% of them.

    Origin

    * As an English surname, variant of Speake with loss of the initial letter. * Also as an English (and sometimes Irish) surname, variant of Peak, Petch, Peach. * As a south German surname, variant of Beck. Compare Pek, also found in Poland. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from pek (“pitch, tar, resin”). * As a Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pek, Pék meaning "baker," itself ultimately from the German verb backen.

    Peck is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 40,055 people named Peck in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 7,708 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 39,432.

    #864
    rank among US surnames
    40,055
    people in 2010
    14
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #796)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #855Mahoney40,3977,643
    #856Valentine40,3957,643
    #857Raymond40,2757,666
    #858Medrano40,2617,669
    #859Hahn40,2507,671
    #860McMillan40,2377,673
    #861Small40,2127,678

    Who is named Peck

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

    91% of people named Peck identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Pecks

    18 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Gregory Peck
      American actor (1916–2003)
    • Josh Peck
      American actor and comedian (born 1986)
    • M. Scott Peck
      American psychiatrist (1936–2005)
    • Ethan Peck
      American actor, born 1986
    • Charles Horton Peck
      American mycologist (1833–1917)
    • Bob Peck
      British actor (1945-1999)
    • Annie Smith Peck
      American mountain climber and professor (1850–1935)
    • Mizuo Peck
      American actress, born 1977
    • J. Eddie Peck
      American actor, born 1958
    • Ella Rae Peck
      American actress, born 1990
    • Ed Peck
      American actor (1917–1992)
    • George Wilbur Peck
      American politician in Wisconsin and newspaper founder (1840-1916)

    Notable Pecks come mostly from the United States (17) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Peck

    Peck has the Soundex code P200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Peck come from?
    * As an English surname, variant of Speake with loss of the initial letter. * Also as an English (and sometimes Irish) surname, variant of Peak, Petch, Peach. * As a south German surname, variant of Beck. Compare Pek, also found in Poland. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from pek (“pitch,…
    How common is the surname Peck?
    40,055 people in the United States had the surname Peck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 7,708 Americans. It ranked 864th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Peck?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Peck identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Peck?
    Gregory Peck, American actor (1916–2003), followed by Josh Peck.
    Where is the surname Peck most common?
    Wikidata records people named Peck in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Peck?
    Peck is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Peck getting more or less common?
    More common. 39,432 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 40,055 in 2010, up 1.6%.