Peak Family History
Peak Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone living by a pointed hill
(or regional name from the Peak District (Old English
Peaclond) in Derbyshire), named with Old English
peac ‘peak’, ‘pointed hill’ (found only in place
names). This word is not directly related to Old English pic
‘point’, ‘pointed hill’, which yielded Pike; there is, however,
some evidence of confusion between the two surnames.Possibly also
Irish: reduced form of McPeak.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Peak
Name Distribution of Peak Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Peak families
 137 - 272  46 - 136 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Peak families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Peak census records
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Peak Family Origin
Peak Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Peak Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Peak census records
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