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The PENA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 98,345 284 0.036 365
United States (1880 census) 847 6245 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +97498 +5961 +0.034 +348
Other Countries
Australia 179 8352 0.001 11
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PENA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 30,239 70 0.145 1,450
California 18,972 159 0.056 560
Florida 9,504 206 0.059 595
New York 8,506 177 0.045 448
New Jersey 3,260 254 0.039 387
Top States for PENA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 30,239 70 0.145 1,450
New Mexico 1,703 109 0.094 936
Arizona 3,209 181 0.063 625
Florida 9,504 206 0.059 595
California 18,972 159 0.056 560

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PENA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PENA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PENA in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PENA by picking someone at random in Texas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PENA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PENA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PENA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PENA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 570 0.58
Black/African American 502 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 384 0.39
White (Hispanic) 90,035 91.55
White (Caucasian) 5,822 5.92
Asian/Pacific 1,033 1.05

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PENA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PENA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PENA.

Similar names to PENA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PENA

The following words are slight variants of PENA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.