Peace Surname
Approximately 44,316 people bear this surname
Peace Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. —the son of Pece,' a great Yorkshire surname. No doubt Pece was one of the many variants of Pace, i.e. Easter, so given because born or baptized on that day; v. Pask, Pace, Pass, Pacey, &c.
Read More About This SurnamePeace Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 11,679 | 1:31,035 | 3,863 |
| Rwanda | 10,853 | 1:1,047 | 248 |
| Nigeria | 4,906 | 1:36,107 | 2,923 |
| England | 4,092 | 1:13,616 | 2,010 |
| Ghana | 3,048 | 1:8,865 | 1,206 |
| Uganda | 1,668 | 1:23,405 | 3,374 |
| Iran | 1,305 | 1:58,837 | 6,349 |
| Morocco | 1,295 | 1:26,622 | 4,228 |
| Australia | 1,121 | 1:24,082 | 3,301 |
| Canada | 763 | 1:48,290 | 5,863 |
| Egypt | 732 | 1:125,595 | 10,096 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Saudi Arabia | 358 | 1:86,189 | 12,374 |
| Scotland | 330 | 1:16,224 | 2,000 |
| India | 226 | 1:3,394,095 | 97,556 |
| Kenya | 164 | 1:281,585 | 18,349 |
| South Africa | 157 | 1:345,081 | 31,817 |
| New Zealand | 151 | 1:29,989 | 5,243 |
| Wales | 121 | 1:25,575 | 2,657 |
| Singapore | 86 | 1:64,043 | 2,603 |
| Botswana | 50 | 1:43,739 | 8,388 |
| Indonesia | 49 | 1:2,698,963 | 156,404 |
| Myanmar | 49 | 1:1,059,959 | 527 |
| Thailand | 42 | 1:1,681,865 | 216,672 |
| Kuwait | 39 | 1:97,454 | 10,676 |
| Northern Ireland | 34 | 1:54,266 | 4,423 |
| Philippines | 30 | 1:3,374,607 | 147,509 |
| United Arab Emirates | 30 | 1:305,409 | 20,323 |
| Ireland | 29 | 1:162,377 | 7,171 |
| China | 29 | 1:47,149,020 | 2,555 |
| Costa Rica | 29 | 1:164,830 | 2,283 |
| Malaysia | 26 | 1:1,134,393 | 49,681 |
| Germany | 24 | 1:3,354,394 | 150,996 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Brazil | 20 | 1:10,703,717 | 220,519 |
| France | 19 | 1:3,495,933 | 219,029 |
| Isle of Man | 19 | 1:4,517 | 958 |
| Sudan | 16 | 1:2,344,387 | 4,438 |
| Mexico | 14 | 1:8,866,158 | 37,743 |
| Japan | 11 | 1:11,622,208 | 45,659 |
| Netherlands | 11 | 1:1,535,198 | 78,311 |
| Tanzania | 11 | 1:4,812,874 | 55,358 |
| Cameroon | 10 | 1:2,076,907 | 105,188 |
| Jersey | 10 | 1:9,920 | 2,003 |
| Niger | 10 | 1:1,919,202 | 37,248 |
| Ethiopia | 9 | 1:10,838,474 | 14,518 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| Mozambique | 9 | 1:3,029,063 | 2,946 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| Spain | 8 | 1:5,844,004 | 86,878 |
| Ecuador | 7 | 1:2,272,264 | 23,377 |
| Hong Kong | 7 | 1:1,047,926 | 4,985 |
| Nepal | 7 | 1:4,068,708 | 11,207 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Vietnam | 6 | 1:15,441,009 | 3,090 |
| Zimbabwe | 6 | 1:2,573,040 | 106,478 |
| Italy | 5 | 1:12,231,338 | 126,430 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 1:35,728,777 | 102,388 |
| Afghanistan | 4 | 1:8,038,296 | 30,874 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1:337,152 | 6,054 |
| Cambodia | 4 | 1:3,871,786 | 9,580 |
| Colombia | 4 | 1:11,943,518 | 26,735 |
| Gambia | 4 | 1:480,863 | 548 |
| Mauritius | 4 | 1:323,354 | 10,053 |
| Sri Lanka | 4 | 1:5,202,140 | 12,146 |
| Peru | 3 | 1:10,594,708 | 45,902 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Cyprus | 2 | 1:442,438 | 9,493 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1:2,818,542 | 25,087 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Syria | 2 | 1:9,650,511 | 17,817 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Yemen | 2 | 1:13,212,647 | 40,633 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 1:63,893 | 2,384 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Guernsey | 1 | 1:64,439 | 2,137 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 1:112,659 | 1,704 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 6 | 1:738,311 | 21,113 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2,040 | 1:11,949 | 1,817 |
| Scotland | 340 | 1:11,009 | 1,371 |
| Wales | 6 | 1:261,403 | 9,165 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,394 | 1:36,025 | 4,271 |
The alternate forms: Péàce (1) are calculated separately.
Peace (298,362) may also be a first name.
Peace Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. —the son of Pece,' a great Yorkshire surname. No doubt Pece was one of the many variants of Pace, i.e. Easter, so given because born or baptized on that day; v. Pask, Pace, Pass, Pacey, &c. In Lancashire Easter-egging is still Paceegging or Peace-egging.
John Pese, Bedfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Willelmus Pece, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Thomas Paas, 1379: ibid.
1566. John Pease and Margery Robertes: Marriage Lic. (London).
1649. Baptised — John, s. John Peace: St. James, Clerkenwell.
An Orcadian surname which Mr. Clouston believes to be a nickname. The earliest recorded Orcadian form of the name is Pase or Paise (1402). Anders Pass, "aff wapu," i.e. armiger, appended his seal to a deed at Copenhagen in June 1433 (Diplomatarium Norvegicum, III, 720). James Pase witnessed a disposition of a land in Wasbister in the parish of Holm in 1483 (REO., p. 195), Magnus Paise owned a tenement in Kirkwall in 1573, and Angus Peace was a witness there in 1553 (ibid., p. 248,350). William Peace published his Descriptive and historic handbook to the Orkney Islands in 1862.
A variant of Pace, q.v.
(English) Variants of Pace, q.v.
If not from the personification of Peace in some medieval drama, probably from a Christian name, like Faith, Charity, Honour, &c. Pax, without prefix, is found in H.R.
The same as Pace, Pacy, Paice, Peacey; from Pacy, in France, dep. Eure, or Pacé, dep. Ille-et-Vilaine.
From the Dutch, Piesche, Pees; a personal name.$
Peace Demographics
Peace Religious Adherence
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Religious Adherence
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Peace Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Peace Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Peace (Arabic: صلي) is more commonly found in The United States than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Péàce. For other potential spellings of Peace click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Peace? popularity and diffusion
The last name Peace is the 12,665th most widespread last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 164,445 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 53 percent of Peace live; 29 percent live in East Africa and 27 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Peace is also the 3,511th most numerous first name globally, borne by 298,362 people.
The last name is most commonly held in The United States, where it is borne by 11,679 people, or 1 in 31,035. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: North Carolina, where 9 percent reside, Georgia, where 6 percent reside and California, where 6 percent reside. Other than The United States Peace is found in 127 countries. It is also common in Rwanda, where 24 percent reside and Nigeria, where 11 percent reside.
Peace Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Peace has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name increased 838 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 201 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it decreased 3 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it increased 2,017 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it increased 483 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Peace Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Peace last name is predominantly Anglican (83%) in Ireland, Orthodox (80%) in Russia, Christian (100%) in Kenya, Christian (96%) in Nigeria and Orthodox (71%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Peace surname are 9.84% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 56.61% registered with the political party.
The amount Peace earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 130.71% more than the national average, earning R 548,244 per year; in United States they earn 7.86% less than the national average, earning $39,757 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6% more than the national average, earning $52,665 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Peace Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Peace in the Arabic language | ||
| صلي | sly | - |
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