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    The surname Pendarvis

    A Cornish place surname, carried by 1,380 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex P536

    Pendarvis: #19,559 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pendarvis #19,559, 1,380 people Pendarvis: #19,559 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pendarvis #19,559, 1,380 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pendarvis is more common than 87.9% of them.

    Origin

    Cornish origin

    Habitational surname from Cornish Pennderves, from penn (“head”) + derves (“oakwood”).

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

    One of 18 Cornish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,380 people named Pendarvis in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,729 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,361.

    #19,559
    rank among US surnames
    1,380
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #18,656)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,551Nepomuceno1,381223,567
    #19,559Walder1,380223,729
    #19,567Kilbourn1,379223,891

    Who is named Pendarvis

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

    69% of people named Pendarvis identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pendarvis

    Pendarvis has the Soundex code P536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P536.

    Other Cornish surnames

    All 18 Cornish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pendarvis come from?
    Habitational surname from Cornish Pennderves, from penn (“head”) + derves (“oakwood”).
    How common is the surname Pendarvis?
    1,380 people in the United States had the surname Pendarvis in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,729 Americans. It ranked 19,559th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pendarvis?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Pendarvis identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Pendarvis?
    Pendarvis is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Pendarvis getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,361 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,380 in 2010, up 1.4%.