# Peebles (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/peebles/  
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 | Scottish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 8,843 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,021 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 34,914 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.5% (8,540 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* The town in Scotland is from Scots Peebles, from Scottish Gaelic Na Pùballan, of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *pėbɨll (“tent, temporary settlement”), from Vulgar Latin păpiliō, from Latin pāpiliō. Doublet of papilio, papillon, and pavilion. * The surname is Scottish and derived from the town. * The towns in Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand are named either after the town in Scotland or after a person bearing the surname.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Peebles 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) | 67% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 27% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Peebles in the United States.

## People named Peebles

- Melvin Van Peebles, American filmmaker (1932–2021)
- Ann Peebles, American singer and songwriter
- Robert Knight, American singer

## Similar surnames

Peoples, Peeples, Pavlik, Poplawski, Pavlick, Pavelka.

## 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.