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The PENG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,460 4989 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 16 79415 0 0
Change since 1880 +6444 +74426 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 340 4636 0.002 21
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PENG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,511 1490 0.007 74
New York 788 2770 0.004 42
Texas 398 5728 0.002 19
New Jersey 349 3140 0.004 41
Pennsylvania 216 7973 0.002 18
Top States for PENG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,511 1490 0.007 74
New York 788 2770 0.004 42
New Jersey 349 3140 0.004 41
Maryland 199 3415 0.004 38
Hawaii 40 3189 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of PENG

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PENG 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.

Ethnic distribution of PENG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 202 3.13
Mixed Race 90 1.39
Black/African American 26 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.15
Asian/Pacific 5,058 78.3
White (Hispanic) 1,074 16.63

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

Meaning of PENG in historical publications

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

Similar names to PENG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENG.

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 PENG

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