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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

'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?

Meaning of PENTA in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PENTA

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