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The PENSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 644 33425 0 2
United States (1880 census) 245 16617 0 5
Change since 1880 +399 -16808 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 18 56338 0 1
United Kingdom 1 37072 0 0
Top States for PENSE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 105 3091 0.004 39
Oklahoma 80 5157 0.002 23
Oregon 80 5234 0.002 23
California 59 35488 0.000 2
Texas 46 27384 0.000 2
Top States for PENSE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 105 3091 0.004 39
Oregon 80 5234 0.002 23
Oklahoma 80 5157 0.002 23
Idaho 12 13397 0.001 9
South Dakota 6 18241 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of PENSE

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

Ethnic distribution of PENSE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 613 95.19
Mixed Race 15 2.33
White (Hispanic) 8 1.24
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.78
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PENSE in historical publications

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

Similar names to PENSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENSE.

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 PENSE

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