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The PENICK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,244 9242 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 921 5851 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +2323 -3391 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 4 173507 0 0
United Kingdom 1 35705 0 0
Top States for PENICK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 369 1651 0.009 91
Texas 296 6895 0.001 14
Ohio 242 6094 0.002 21
California 220 12267 0.001 6
Virginia 186 4606 0.003 26
Top States for PENICK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 369 1651 0.009 91
Oklahoma 160 3105 0.005 46
Virginia 186 4606 0.003 26
Arkansas 67 4752 0.003 25
Iowa 68 7178 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of PENICK

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

Ethnic distribution of PENICK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 584 18
Mixed Race 71 2.19
White (Hispanic) 45 1.39
Asian/Pacific 13 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.4
White (Caucasian) 2,518 77.62

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

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

Meaning of PENICK in historical publications

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

Similar names to PENICK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENICK.

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 PENICK

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