# Pesce (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pesce/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Italian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,830 |
| US rank (2010) | 11,174 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 109,097 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.4% (2,710 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Pesce.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pesce 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) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.8% |
| Two or more races | 0.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pesce in the United States.

## People named Pesce

- Brett Pesce, American ice hockey player
- Frank Pesce, American actor
- Nicolas Pesce, American film director

## Similar surnames

Peck, Pease, Peace, Peachey, Pascoe, Pech, Page, Pace, Pugh, Pike, Paz, Paige.

## 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.