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The PANTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,819 14928 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 283 14925 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1536 -3 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 81 17120 0 5
United Kingdom 1,364 4065 0.003 30
Top States for PANTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 313 2931 0.004 38
Tennessee 172 4039 0.003 30
Utah 105 2678 0.005 47
California 103 22004 0.000 3
Michigan 85 14504 0.001 9
Top States for PANTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 105 2678 0.005 47
Georgia 313 2931 0.004 38
Idaho 40 4610 0.003 31
Tennessee 172 4039 0.003 30
Nevada 38 5935 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of PANTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 26 1.43
Mixed Race 23 1.26
Native American/Alaskan 21 1.15
Black/African American 13 0.71
Asian/Pacific 5 0.27
White (Caucasian) 1,731 95.16

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

Meaning of PANTER in historical publications

PANTER. The name of Paniter, Panter, or Panther, is derived from the office of master-baker. " In the court of France the Panitierwas an officer of high consideration; and in monasteries the Paniter would seem to have been charged with the distribution of bread to the poor — no doubt in virtue of his office of chief baker." Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, voh 1. p. 14. ,

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 PANTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PANTER.

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 PANTER

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