Peddie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Peddie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 99K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 634K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
≈670 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peddie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 548 | Peddie | 120 |
| US United States | 525 | 1 in 634K | 555 | Peddie | 199 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Peddie | 19 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Peddie | 67 |
| AU Australia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Peddie | 61 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Peddie | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Peddie | 34 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Peddieb. 1759Scottish minister of the Secession church
- Thomas Baldwin Peddieb. 1808USAmerican politician (1808-1889)
- John More Dick Peddieb. 1853GBBritish architect
- William Peddieb. 1861GBScottish physicist and applied mathematician (1861-1946)
- Robert Alexander Peddieb. 1869GBScottish trade unionist and political activist
- Jack Peddieb. 1876GBScottish footballer (1876-1928)
- John Peddieb. 1933British writer
- Richard Peddieb. 1947USCanadian businessman
- Meredith PeddieNZresearcher at University of Otago
- John PeddieBritish military officer (died 1817)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 555 | #42,112 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 548 | #10,573 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 538 | #38,644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 525 | #41,426 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Peddie mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as a patronymic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Peddie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 665 people named Peddie in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peddie.
- How common is the name Peddie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 525 people named Peddie in 2010, about 1 in 634 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peddieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Peddie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.