The surname Peets
A surname, carried by 1,396 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex P320
Origin
Probably a variant of Peet.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,396 people named Peets in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,164 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,058.
#19,372
rank among US surnames
1,396
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+31.9%
change since 2000 (was #22,670)
Who is named Peets
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
80% of people named Peets identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 80%
- Black (not Hispanic) 12%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.7%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Peets has the Soundex code P320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P320.
Questions
- Where does the surname Peets come from?
- Probably a variant of Peet.
- How common is the surname Peets?
- 1,396 people in the United States had the surname Peets in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,164 Americans. It ranked 19,372nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Peets?
- In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Peets identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Peets getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,058 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,396 in 2010, up 32%.