The PINKNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,938	5396	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	1,771	3330	0.004	35
Change since 1880	+4167	-2066	-0.002	-13
Other Countries
Australia	69	19599	0	4
United Kingdom	1,604	3544	0.003	35

Top States for PINKNEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maryland	852	807	0.016	161
Florida	640	3754	0.004	40
Georgia	452	2492	0.006	55
Pennsylvania	431	4121	0.004	35
California	396	7960	0.001	12
Top States for PINKNEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	131	547	0.023	229
Maryland	852	807	0.016	161
South Carolina	309	2313	0.008	77
Louisiana	251	2711	0.006	56
Georgia	452	2492	0.006	55

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

Classification and Origin of PINKNEY

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 PINKNEY 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 PINKNEY 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 PINKNEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	662	11.15
Mixed Race	152	2.56
White (Hispanic)	86	1.45
Asian/Pacific	25	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.12
Black/African American	5,006	84.3

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

Similar names to PINKNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PINKNEY.

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.