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The PENTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,041 9817 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 275 15242 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +2766 +5425 0 +6
Other Countries
Australia 111 13024 0.001 7
United Kingdom 586 7939 0.001 13
Top States for PENTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 622 1060 0.014 139
Florida 564 3647 0.004 35
Mississippi 422 1049 0.015 148
Alabama 208 2947 0.005 47
Texas 175 10056 0.001 8
Top States for PENTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 422 1049 0.015 148
Louisiana 622 1060 0.014 139
Alabama 208 2947 0.005 47
Florida 564 3647 0.004 35
Wyoming 16 4408 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of PENTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 304 10
Black/African American 191 6.28
Mixed Race 50 1.64
Asian/Pacific 22 0.72
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.3
White (Caucasian) 2,465 81.06

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

Meaning of PENTON in historical publications

PENTON. A parish in Hampshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PENTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENTON.

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 PENTON

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