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The PENWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,569 16761 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 255 16111 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1314 -650 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PENWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 547 2509 0.005 48
Pennsylvania 130 11285 0.001 11
West Virginia 104 2261 0.006 58
Washington 96 7511 0.002 16
California 66 32744 0.000 2
Top States for PENWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 104 2261 0.006 58
Ohio 547 2509 0.005 48
Montana 22 6621 0.002 24
Washington 96 7511 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 130 11285 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of PENWELL

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

Ethnic distribution of PENWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 26 1.66
White (Hispanic) 11 0.7
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.57
Black/African American 8 0.51
Asian/Pacific 6 0.38
White (Caucasian) 1,509 96.18

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

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

Meaning of PENWELL in historical publications

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

Similar names to PENWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PENWELL.

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 PENWELL

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