The PONTIOUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,156	21156	0	4
United States (1880 census)	452	10473	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+704	-10683	+N/A	-5
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PONTIOUS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	198	6491	0.002	17
Illinois	119	10418	0.001	10
California	101	21602	0.000	3
Pennsylvania	73	18479	0.001	6
Florida	72	21555	0.000	5
Top States for PONTIOUS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kansas	63	4999	0.002	23
Ohio	198	6491	0.002	17
Alaska	8	13378	0.001	13
Oklahoma	37	9543	0.001	11
Iowa	31	13298	0.001	11

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

Classification and Origin of PONTIOUS

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

Ethnic distribution of PONTIOUS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	23	1.99
White (Hispanic)	17	1.47
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.69
White (Caucasian)	1,099	95.07
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to PONTIOUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PONTIOUS.

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.