How common is the surname Peloquin?

2,988 people in the United States had the surname Peloquin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,328 Americans. It ranked 10,697th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Peloquin?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Peloquin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Peloquin getting more or less common?

More common. 2,891 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,988 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Peloquin

A French surname, carried by 2,988 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P425

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Peloquin is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

French origin

Borrowed from French Peloquin.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,988 people named Peloquin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,328 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,891.

#10,697

rank among US surnames

2,988

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,231)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,689	Guice	2,990	103,259
#10,692	Spiers	2,989	103,294
#10,697	Zellers	2,988	103,328
#10,701	Lamkin	2,987	103,363
#10,704	Rugg	2,986	103,398
#10,706	Wardlow	2,985	103,432

Who is named Peloquin

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

96% of people named Peloquin identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Poliquin

Peloquin has the Soundex code P425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P425.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Peloquin come from?: Borrowed from French Peloquin.
How common is the surname Peloquin?: 2,988 people in the United States had the surname Peloquin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,328 Americans. It ranked 10,697th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Peloquin?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Peloquin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Peloquin getting more or less common?: More common. 2,891 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,988 in 2010, up 3.4%.
What are other spellings of Peloquin?: Poliquin.