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peoples Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duibhne ‘descendant of Dubhne’, a personal name meaning ‘ill-going’, ‘disagreeable’. Compare Deeney. Peoples is a pseudo-translation based on the phonetic resemblance of the Gaelic name to Gaelic daoine ‘people’.
  2. English: patronymic from a pet form (in -el) of the Old French personal name Pepis, oblique case Pepin (see Pepin).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of peoples Families in the US in 1920
Number of peoples families
 125-247
 42-124		 1-41
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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