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pease Name Meaning and History

English: from Middle English pese ‘pea’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of peas, or a nickname for a small and insignificant person. The word was originally a collective singular (Old English peose, pise, from Latin pisa) from which the modern English vocabulary word pea is derived by folk etymology, the singular having been taken as a plural.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pease Families in the US in 1920
Number of pease families
 176-349
 59-175		 1-58
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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