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The PENHA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 162 102691 0 1
United States (1880 census) -1 138899 0 0
Change since 1880 +163 +36208 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PENHA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 40 17130 0.001 6
Florida 28 48267 0.000 2
New York 19 79226 0.000 1
Rhode Island 17 8226 0.002 16
Ohio 14 66966 0.000 1
Top States for PENHA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 17 8226 0.002 16
Massachusetts 40 17130 0.001 6
Nevada 4 52370 0.000 2
Florida 28 48267 0.000 2
Maryland 7 55888 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of PENHA

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

Ethnic distribution of PENHA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 58 35.8
Mixed Race 39 24.07
Black/African American 38 23.46
White (Hispanic) 27 16.67
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of PENHA in historical publications

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

Similar names to PENHA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENHA.

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 PENHA

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