The PENTA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,063	22570	0	4
United States (1880 census)	3	102911	0	0
Change since 1880	+1060	+80341	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	14	67255	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PENTA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	339	2450	0.005	53
New Jersey	120	7589	0.001	14
New York	95	18305	0.001	5
Florida	81	19319	0.001	5
Connecticut	63	6711	0.002	18
Top States for PENTA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	63	2413	0.006	60
Massachusetts	339	2450	0.005	53
New Hampshire	30	5087	0.002	24
Delaware	15	8361	0.002	19
Connecticut	63	6711	0.002	18

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

Classification and Origin of PENTA

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

Ethnic distribution of PENTA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	966	90.87
White (Hispanic)	43	4.05
Asian/Pacific	30	2.82
Mixed Race	21	1.98
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to PENTA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENTA.

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.