The surname Peckham
An English place surname, carried by 4,885 people in the United States.
Pronounced /pɛkəm/ 2 syllables Soundex P250
Origin
English origin
Probably from Old English Pēac- (“Peak”) + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”). By surface analysis, Peck + -ham, referring to the River Peck in south London, though the river was likely named after the settlement.
Peckham is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,885 people named Peckham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,203 Americans. That is down 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,937.
Who is named Peckham
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Peckham identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Famous Peckhams
4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- John PeckhamArchbishop of Canterbury, 1227–1292
- Lawrie PeckhamAustralian high jumper, born 1944
- Elizabeth PeckhamAmerican teacher, taxonomist, ethologist, arachnologist, and entomologist, 1854–1940
- George PeckhamAmerican teacher, taxonomist, ethologist, arachnologist, and entomologist, 1845–1914
Notable Peckhams come mostly from the United States (2) and Australia (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Peckham
Peckham has the Soundex code P250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P250.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Peckham come from?
- Probably from Old English Pēac- (“Peak”) + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”). By surface analysis, Peck + -ham, referring to the River Peck in south London, though the river was likely named after the settlement.
- How common is the surname Peckham?
- 4,885 people in the United States had the surname Peckham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,203 Americans. It ranked 6,882nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Peckham?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Peckham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Who is the most famous person named Peckham?
- John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury, followed by Lawrie Peckham.
- Where is the surname Peckham most common?
- Wikidata records people named Peckham in the United States and Australia.
- How do you pronounce Peckham?
- Peckham is /pɛkəm/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Peckham?
- Peckham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Peckham getting more or less common?
- Less common. 4,937 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,885 in 2010, down 1.1%.