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The peters Surname

peters Name Meaning and History

  1. English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Peter.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.
  3. Americanized form of cognate surnames in other languages, for example Dutch and North German Pieters.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The peters name in History

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Distribution of peters Families in the US in 1920
Number of peters families
 1020-2037
 341-1019		 1-340
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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