Peat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Old English Pēot, or a pet-form of Peter; first attested Ralph Peet 1210–11
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/piːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 460K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- ESSpain1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 460K (inferred from the name graph)
723 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Old English Pēot, or a pet-form of Peter; first attested Ralph Peet 1210–11
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peat 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 | 723 | 1 in 460K | 1K | Peat | 29 |
| ES Spain | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | Peat | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 3K | Peat | 21 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Peat | 1 |
723 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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Peat is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, to repeat a year
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)
- Charles Peatb. 1892GBBritish politician (1892-1979)
- F. David Peatb. 1938GBBritish physicist (1938–2017)
- Tito Fuentesb. 1944CUnot in their usual nameCuban baseball player (born 1944)
- Neville Peatb. 1947NZNew Zealand writer, journalist, photographer and naturalist (1947–2026)
- Steve Peatb. 1974GBprofessional downhill mountain biker
- Stephen Peatb. 1980CACanadian ice hockey player
- Nathan Peatb. 1982GBBritish footballer (born 1982)
- Andrus Peatb. 1993USAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Koa Peatb. 2007USAmerican basketball player (born 2007)
- Maya PeatUSbasketball player
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 3K | #2,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,376 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 878 | #26,191 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 723 | #31,906 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #378,153 |
| 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 Peat mean, and where does it come from?
- Old English Pēot, or a pet-form of Peter; first attested Ralph Peet 1210–11 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Peat?
- A machine transcription gives /piːt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Peat have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 723 people named Peat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peat.
- Where is Peat most common?
- Peat is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 460 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Peat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 723 people named Peat in 2010, about 1 in 460 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peatThe 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, “Peat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.