How common is the surname Peiffer?

2,938 people in the United States had the surname Peiffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,087 Americans. It ranked 10,837th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Peiffer?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Peiffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Peiffer getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,959 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,938 in 2010, down 0.7%.

The surname Peiffer

A surname, carried by 2,938 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Peiffer is more common than 93.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,938 people named Peiffer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,087 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,959.

#10,837

rank among US surnames

2,938

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

-0.7%

change since 2000 (was #10,046)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,829	Nault	2,941	104,980
#10,834	Tullos	2,940	105,015
#10,835	Woolridge	2,939	105,051
#10,837	Menon	2,938	105,087
#10,844	Fedor	2,937	105,123

Who is named Peiffer

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

96% of people named Peiffer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Peiffer

Peiffer has the Soundex code P160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P160.

Questions

How common is the surname Peiffer?: 2,938 people in the United States had the surname Peiffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,087 Americans. It ranked 10,837th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Peiffer?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Peiffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Peiffer getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,959 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,938 in 2010, down 0.7%.