Peery
surname · Latin script
Meaning: That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpiɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peery is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 72K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 167K
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 6.3K
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
- 322 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,620 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peery 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 | — | 4,620 | 1 in 72K | 4.6K | Peery | 322 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Peery | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Peery | 27 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Peery | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Peery | 20 |
| LR Liberia | #312 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Peery | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Peery | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Peery | 1 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #175 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Peery | 1 |
4,620 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. 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)
- William Peeryb. 1743USAmerican politician
- Andrew N. Peeryb. 1865USAmerican politician
- George C. Peeryb. 1873USAmerican Democratic politician, and Governor of Virginia, 1934-1938
- Benjamin F. Peeryb. 1922USAmerican astronomer (1922–2010)
- Richard Peeryb. 1938USAmerican real estate developer
- Barret Peeryb. 1971USbasketball player (1971-)
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 8 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,224 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.2K | #7,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,702 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Peery mean, and where does it come from?
- That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Peery?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpiɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Peery have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Peery, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peery.
- How common is the name Peery?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,620 people named Peery in 2010, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
- How common is Peery compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Peery is the 175th most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peeryThe 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, “Peery” — the 175th most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.