Pepper Family History
Pepper Name Meaning
English and North German: from Middle English peper,
piper, Middle Low German peper ‘pepper’, hence a
metonymic occupational name for a spicer; alternatively, it may be a
nickname for a small man (as if the size of a peppercorn) or one with
a fiery temper, or for a dark-haired person (from the color of a
peppercorn) or anecdotal for someone who paid a peppercorn rent.Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental name
Pfeffer, or Fef(f)er, a cognate, from Yiddish
fefer ‘pepper’.Irish: variant of Peppard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Pepper Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pepper families
 92 - 181  31 - 91 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pepper families
|
317 - 632 106 - 316 |
1 - 105 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pepper families
|
21 - 39 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pepper Family Origin
Pepper Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Pepper
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Pepper Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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