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The PENNINGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 534 38890 0 2
United States (1880 census) 109 29764 0 2
Change since 1880 +425 -9126 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 10 88134 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PENNINGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 183 4624 0.002 23
Illinois 61 21094 0.000 5
South Carolina 55 6889 0.001 14
Florida 44 33975 0.000 3
Texas 37 32203 0.000 2
Top States for PENNINGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 183 4624 0.002 23
South Carolina 55 6889 0.001 14
Montana 6 22817 0.001 7
Illinois 61 21094 0.000 5
Florida 44 33975 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of PENNINGER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PENNINGER surname.

Ethnic distribution of PENNINGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 515 96.44
Mixed Race 9 1.69
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

PENNINGER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PENNINGER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PENNINGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENNINGER.

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 PENNINGER

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