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The PENDER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,065 5278 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,597 3633 0.003 32
Change since 1880 +4468 -1645 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 499 3229 0.003 31
United Kingdom 1,510 3731 0.003 33
Top States for PENDER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 755 1672 0.009 94
Florida 536 3996 0.003 34
Illinois 319 4311 0.003 26
New York 290 7059 0.002 15
South Carolina 289 2255 0.007 72
Top States for PENDER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 755 1672 0.009 94
South Carolina 289 2255 0.007 72
Missouri 219 3597 0.004 39
Louisiana 150 3908 0.003 34
Florida 536 3996 0.003 34

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

Classification and Origin of PENDER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PENDER 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 PENDER 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 PENDER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 91 1.5
White (Hispanic) 82 1.35
Asian/Pacific 30 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.4
White (Caucasian) 4,108 67.73
Black/African American 1,730 28.52

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

Meaning of PENDER in historical publications

PENDER. See Pendre.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PENDER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENDER.

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 PENDER

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