Last Name PEEL

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Meaning Local: At the peel, from residence at a fortified house so termed. 'Peel,' a square tower, a fortress. Many old mansions still bear the name of 'the Peel' in the North of England. Peel Castle in Furness is well known, and no doubt John Peel of Cumberland hunting celebrity got his name from that spot.
Origin English, Jewish, Dutch, Irish, Maltese, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 4,880 (2000 US census) 4,440 (1990 US census)
Count 6,603 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 87.31%, or 5765 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 8.91%, or 588 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.56%, or 37 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.53%, or 35 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.11%, or 73 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.59%, or 105 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Ukrainian middle names

 Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

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