Peek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/piːk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 30K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 32K
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 States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 368 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
11,062 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 11,062 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Peek | 368 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,143 | 1 in 8.1K | 2.1K | Peek | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1.7K | Peek | 119 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Peek | 3 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Peek | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Peek | 95 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Peek | 48 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 80 | Peek | 13 |
| BB Barbados | #128 | — | — | — | Peek | 4 |
11,062 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the ee-stat-nimed 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Peek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, too, too much, too many; beyond, extra. ffluCnn too mean. too hard, too rough, too strong (of an action). C[pSCnn too much, too many. too good, too well. tnfUCnn too much (beyond reason, beyond tolerance). tnOS
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Basque, ergative plural of pe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lic, high
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francis Hedley Peekb. 1858GBUK biscuit manufacturer, sportswriter, publisher and author (1858-1904)
- George Peekb. 1873USAmerican economist
- Bertrand Meigh Peekb. 1891GBBritish astronomer
- Paul Peekb. 1904USAmerican politician (1904-1987)
- Werner Peekb. 1904DEGerman archaeologist and classical philologist (1904–1994)
- Dan Peekb. 1950USAmerican musician (1950-2011)
- Kim Peekb. 1951USAmerican savant (1951–2009)
- Alison Peekb. 1969AUOlympic field hockey player
- Gustaaf Peekb. 1975NLDutch author
- Hammond Peekb. 2000USNew Zealand sound engineer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,263 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,407 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.1K | #577 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.7K | #4,320 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 80 | #1,011 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 68 | #1,328 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Peek mean, and where does it come from?
- To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Peek?
- A machine transcription gives /piːk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Peek have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Peek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peek.
- Where is Peek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peek is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 8.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Peek?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,062 people named Peek in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Peek compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Peek is the 128th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Peek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peekThe 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, “Peek” — the 128th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.