The PENSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,557	16871	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	127	26776	0	3
Change since 1880	+1430	+9905	+N/A	+3
Other Countries
Australia	96	14764	0.001	6
United Kingdom	526	8528	0.001	11

Top States for PENSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	272	7746	0.001	13
Georgia	221	4258	0.003	27
Ohio	119	12350	0.001	10
California	85	29587	0.000	3
Mississippi	84	4013	0.003	30
Top States for PENSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	84	4013	0.003	30
Georgia	221	4258	0.003	27
Vermont	12	8204	0.002	20
Texas	272	7746	0.001	13
Tennessee	67	8471	0.001	12

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

Classification and Origin of PENSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PENSON 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 PENSON 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 PENSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	828	53.18
White (Caucasian)	615	39.5
White (Hispanic)	59	3.79
Mixed Race	33	2.12
Asian/Pacific	16	1.03
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.39

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

Similar names to PENSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENSON.

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.