Peppe: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Anyone researching Peppe should also look under Pepe. Its meaning, shared with Pepe, is “pepper", or Giuseppe"”.

• Peppe adds “p” to Pepe, a small change that crept in as the name was written down.
• Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Poppe.
• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• The same family of names includes Pepi.
• The 2010 US Census counted 344 people named Peppe, ranking it number 58,876 among American surnames. That puts it inside the top 100,000 US surnames.

Arms associated with the name

There is no single Peppe family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. For the full story, order the Peppe surname pack.