The PENNINGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	534	38890	0	2
United States (1880 census)	109	29764	0	2
Change since 1880	+425	-9126	+N/A	0
Other Countries
Australia	10	88134	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PENNINGER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	183	4624	0.002	23
Illinois	61	21094	0.000	5
South Carolina	55	6889	0.001	14
Florida	44	33975	0.000	3
Texas	37	32203	0.000	2
Top States for PENNINGER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	183	4624	0.002	23
South Carolina	55	6889	0.001	14
Montana	6	22817	0.001	7
Illinois	61	21094	0.000	5
Florida	44	33975	0.000	3

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

Classification and Origin of PENNINGER

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

Ethnic distribution of PENNINGER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	515	96.44
Mixed Race	9	1.69
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to PENNINGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENNINGER.

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.