Peach: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Peach is a spelling of the English surname Pech. In origin, the name means “Someone who came from Pech or Peche (peach), in Normandy”.

Spelling and variants

Before spelling was fixed, Pech was also written Peach. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

In the records

The 2010 census count for Peach in the United States was 4,815, good for rank 6,968. Names that sound alike, such as Patch, are easily confused in old records.

Family crest and blazon

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