The PENFIELD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,154	21192	0	4
United States (1880 census)	855	6203	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+299	-14989	+N/A	-13
Other Countries
Australia	2	228816	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PENFIELD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	111	13447	0.001	6
California	102	18190	0.000	3
Pennsylvania	82	13877	0.001	7
Florida	63	20740	0.000	4
Michigan	55	17827	0.001	6
Top States for PENFIELD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	21	2462	0.004	43
Vermont	14	5208	0.002	23
South Dakota	15	6913	0.002	20
South Carolina	55	5918	0.001	14
Connecticut	43	8523	0.001	13

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PENFIELD

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

Ethnic distribution of PENFIELD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	33	2.86
White (Hispanic)	13	1.13
Mixed Race	11	0.95
Asian/Pacific	6	0.52
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.43
White (Caucasian)	1,086	94.11

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

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

Similar names to PENFIELD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENFIELD.

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.