The PENINGTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	318	59453	0	1
United States (1880 census)	1,908	3100	0.004	38
Change since 1880	-1590	-56353	+N/A	-37
Other Countries
Australia	30	38061	0	2
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PENINGTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	34	72588	0.000	1
Colorado	26	24257	0.001	6
Oklahoma	26	15404	0.001	8
South Carolina	26	14204	0.001	6
Texas	23	55167	0.000	1
Top States for PENINGTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	16	18797	0.001	9
Oklahoma	26	15404	0.001	8
South Carolina	26	14204	0.001	6
Colorado	26	24257	0.001	6
Oregon	16	30661	0.000	5

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

Classification and Origin of PENINGTON

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

Ethnic distribution of PENINGTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	297	93.4
Black/African American	15	4.72
White (Hispanic)	6	1.89
Asian/Pacific	None reported	0
Mixed Race	None reported	0
Native American/Alaskan	None reported	0

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

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

Similar names to PENINGTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENINGTON.

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.