How common is the surname Peltier?

7,140 people in the United States had the surname Peltier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,242 Americans. It ranked 4,927th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Peltier?

In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Peltier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Who is the most famous person named Peltier?

Autumn Peltier, Anishinaabe water protector, followed by Leslie Peltier.

Where is the surname Peltier most common?

Wikidata records people named Peltier in Canada and the United States.

How do you pronounce Peltier?

Peltier is /ˈpɛltie/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Peltier getting more or less common?

More common. 6,633 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,140 in 2010, up 7.6%.

The surname Peltier

A French surname, carried by 7,140 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈpɛltie/ 3 syllables Soundex P436

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Peltier is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

French origin

A surname from French.

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 7,140 people named Peltier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,242 Americans. That is up 7.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,633.

#4,927

rank among US surnames

7,140

people in 2010

2.4

per 100,000 Americans

+7.6%

change since 2000 (was #4,855)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,924	Woodbury	7,144	43,217
#4,925	Spriggs	7,143	43,224
#4,926	Snook	7,141	43,236
#4,927	Peltier	7,140	43,242

Who is named Peltier

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

82% of people named Peltier identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 82%
American Indian and Alaska Native 8.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
Two or more races 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Peltiers

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Autumn Peltier
Anishinaabe water protector, born 2004
Leslie Peltier
American astronomer (1900–1980)

Notable Peltiers come mostly from Canada (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Peltier

Peltier has the Soundex code P436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P436.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Peltier come from?: Peltier is French in origin.
How common is the surname Peltier?: 7,140 people in the United States had the surname Peltier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,242 Americans. It ranked 4,927th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Peltier?: In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Peltier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Who is the most famous person named Peltier?: Autumn Peltier, Anishinaabe water protector, followed by Leslie Peltier.
Where is the surname Peltier most common?: Wikidata records people named Peltier in Canada and the United States.
How do you pronounce Peltier?: Peltier is /ˈpɛltie/, 3 syllables.
Is the surname Peltier getting more or less common?: More common. 6,633 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,140 in 2010, up 7.6%.