The PONDER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,550	2854	0.004	43
United States (1880 census)	1,785	3306	0.004	36
Change since 1880	+9765	+452	0	+7
Other Countries
Australia	55	23660	0	3
United Kingdom	379	10846	0.001	8

Top States for PONDER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	1,680	683	0.021	205
Texas	1,289	2010	0.006	62
Alabama	900	909	0.020	202
Florida	900	2460	0.006	56
North Carolina	691	1837	0.009	86
Top States for PONDER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	1,680	683	0.021	205
Alabama	900	909	0.020	202
Arkansas	386	998	0.014	144
Missouri	634	1197	0.011	113
Mississippi	266	1655	0.009	94

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

Classification and Origin of PONDER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	178	1.54
White (Hispanic)	142	1.23
Native American/Alaskan	59	0.51
Asian/Pacific	42	0.36
White (Caucasian)	7,905	68.44
Black/African American	3,224	27.91

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

Similar names to PONDER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PONDER.

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.