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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

'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.

Meaning of PONDER in historical publications

PONDER. See Pond. Le Pondere. H.R.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for PONDER

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