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    The surname Pankhurst

    A place surname, carried by 210 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P526

    Pankhurst: #88,336 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Pankhurst #88,336, 210 people Pankhurst: #88,336 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Pankhurst #88,336, 210 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pankhurst is more common than 45.6% of them.

    Origin

    Habitational, perhaps from Pinkhurst in Slinfold or Pinkhurst Farm in Abinger, from Old English pinca (“finch”) or a personal name derived from it + hyrst (“hillock copse”). Alternatively perhaps from Pankhurst (Surrey), of obscure origin.

    Pankhurst is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 210 people named Pankhurst in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 1,470,217 Americans. That is down 7.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 228.

    #88,336
    rank among US surnames
    210
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7.9%
    change since 2000 (was #78,035)

    Who is named Pankhurst

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    98% of people named Pankhurst identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 98%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Pankhursts

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Adela Pankhurst
      British-Australian suffragette and political activist, 1885–1961
    • Richard Pankhurst
      British-Ethiopian scholar (1927–2017)
    • Daria Pratt
      Amateur golfer (1859–1938)

    Notable Pankhursts come mostly from the United Kingdom (2) and the United States (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pankhurst

    Pankhurst has the Soundex code P526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P526.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pankhurst come from?
    Habitational, perhaps from Pinkhurst in Slinfold or Pinkhurst Farm in Abinger, from Old English pinca (“finch”) or a personal name derived from it + hyrst (“hillock copse”). Alternatively perhaps from Pankhurst (Surrey), of obscure origin.
    How common is the surname Pankhurst?
    210 people in the United States had the surname Pankhurst in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 1,470,217 Americans. It ranked 88,336th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pankhurst?
    In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Pankhurst identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Who is the most famous person named Pankhurst?
    Adela Pankhurst, British-Australian suffragette and political activist, followed by Richard Pankhurst.
    Where is the surname Pankhurst most common?
    Wikidata records people named Pankhurst in the United Kingdom and the United States.
    What type of surname is Pankhurst?
    Pankhurst is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Pankhurst getting more or less common?
    Less common. 228 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 210 in 2010, down 7.9%.