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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 750,349 Historical Documents with Pepper on Ancestry
- 236,249 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 165,790 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,914 Military Records
- 14,687 Immigration Records
- 312,709 Member Trees
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Number of Pepper families
 317 - 632  106 - 316 |
 1 - 105  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pepper families
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40 - 78 14 - 39 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Pepper census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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