Peoples
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of people (“a race, group or nationality”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/piːpəlz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peoples is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 18K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 22K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 6.7K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 399 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of people (“a race, group or nationality”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peoples 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Peoples | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Peoples | 4 |
| US United States | — | 18,672 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Peoples | 399 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 293 | Peoples | 120 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Peoples | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Peoples | 23 |
| JM Jamaica | #529 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Peoples | 2 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Peoples | 3 |
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). 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)
Peoples is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, In Irish this Donegal name is Ó Duibhne which is also anglicized Deeney. Its resemblance in sound to the Irish word daoine (people) gave rise to this example of absurd pseudo-translation. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Don Peoplesb. 1931USactor (1931–2008)
- David Webb Peoplesb. 1940USAmerican screenwriter
- Ann Peoplesb. 1947USMember of the Maine House of Representatives
- Tommy Peoplesb. 1948IEIrish musician (1948–2018)
- Dottie Peoplesb. 1950USAmerican musician
- Crystal Peoplesb. 1951USMember of the New York State Assembly
- Pat Peoplesb. 1969NZNew Zealand rower
- Lindsay Peoples Wagnerb. 1990USAmerican journalist and editor
- Paris Peoplesb. 2000USAmerican sprinter (born 2000)
- Janet PeoplesUSAmerican screenwriter
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,945 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,869 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 293 | #16,629 |
| 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 Peoples mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of people (“a race, group or nationality”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Peoples?
- A machine transcription gives /piːpəlz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Peoples have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Peoples in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peoples.
- How common is the name Peoples?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,672 people named Peoples in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Peoples compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Peoples is the 529th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Peoples?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peoplesThe 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, “Peoples” — the 529th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.