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The PENNY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,615 3410 0.004 36
United States (1880 census) 3,277 1874 0.007 66
Change since 1880 +6338 -1536 -0.003 -30
Other Countries
Australia 1,246 1326 0.008 76
United Kingdom 5,956 1056 0.013 130
Top States for PENNY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,023 2374 0.005 49
North Carolina 885 1436 0.011 110
Ohio 701 2029 0.006 62
Florida 655 3238 0.004 41
California 576 5106 0.002 17
Top States for PENNY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 885 1436 0.011 110
Arkansas 212 1743 0.008 79
Wyoming 35 1890 0.007 71
Ohio 701 2029 0.006 62
Louisiana 260 2379 0.006 58

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

Classification and Origin of PENNY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 179 1.86
White (Hispanic) 159 1.65
Native American/Alaskan 81 0.84
Asian/Pacific 55 0.57
White (Caucasian) 7,083 73.67
Black/African American 2,058 21.4

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

Meaning of PENNY in historical publications

PENNY. Probably local. INIany places in Scotland are compounded with this word (whatever it may mean), as Penuycross, Pennycuick, Pennygown, Penuimuir, &c.

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 PENNY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENNY.

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 PENNY

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