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The PANTHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,105 21902 0 4
United States (1880 census) 92 33273 0 2
Change since 1880 +1013 +11371 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 73 18718 0 4
United Kingdom 349 11494 0.001 8
Top States for PANTHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 166 5827 0.002 21
Iowa 109 4947 0.004 37
Oklahoma 80 6383 0.002 23
California 64 41073 0.000 2
South Carolina 64 7286 0.002 16
Top States for PANTHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 109 4947 0.004 37
Oklahoma 80 6383 0.002 23
North Carolina 166 5827 0.002 21
South Carolina 64 7286 0.002 16
Oregon 49 10866 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of PANTHER

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 PANTHER 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 PANTHER 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 PANTHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 827 74.84
Native American/Alaskan 143 12.94
Asian/Pacific 49 4.43
Mixed Race 37 3.35
White (Hispanic) 33 2.99
Black/African American 16 1.45

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

Meaning of PANTHER in historical publications

PANTHER. Not from the wild beast, but the same as Panter, which see.

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 PANTHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PANTHER.

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 PANTHER

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