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The PENIX surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,849 14731 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 339 13018 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1510 -1713 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PENIX by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 356 4213 0.003 31
Kentucky 197 2770 0.005 49
Michigan 146 9283 0.001 15
Florida 142 13416 0.001 9
Tennessee 120 5568 0.002 21
Top States for PENIX by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 197 2770 0.005 49
Arkansas 96 3618 0.004 36
Ohio 356 4213 0.003 31
Tennessee 120 5568 0.002 21
Indiana 109 7296 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of PENIX

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

Ethnic distribution of PENIX in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 320 17.31
Mixed Race 25 1.35
White (Hispanic) 20 1.08
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.43
Asian/Pacific 7 0.38
White (Caucasian) 1,469 79.45

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

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

Meaning of PENIX in historical publications

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

Similar names to PENIX

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENIX.

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 PENIX

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