The PENN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,601	1765	0.007	69
United States (1880 census)	4,846	1287	0.01	97
Change since 1880	+13755	-478	-0.003	-28
Other Countries
Australia	584	2781	0.004	36
United Kingdom	3,791	1643	0.008	83

Top States for PENN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,479	2191	0.004	44
Texas	1,228	2004	0.006	59
Virginia	1,213	741	0.017	171
Ohio	1,095	1251	0.010	96
Florida	1,024	2047	0.006	64
Top States for PENN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	119	518	0.021	208
Virginia	1,213	741	0.017	171
Maryland	752	801	0.014	142
Arkansas	373	984	0.014	140
Alabama	569	1314	0.013	128

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

Classification and Origin of PENN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PENN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PENN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PENN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	560	3.01
Mixed Race	415	2.23
Asian/Pacific	229	1.23
Native American/Alaskan	216	1.16
White (Caucasian)	10,009	53.81
Black/African American	7,173	38.56

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

Similar names to PENN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENN.

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.