The surname Penfield
A surname, carried by 1,247 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P514
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,247 people named Penfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 247,591 Americans. That is up 8.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,154.
#21,068
rank among US surnames
1,247
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+8.1%
change since 2000 (was #21,192)
Who is named Penfield
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Penfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Penfield has the Soundex code P514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P514.
Questions
- How common is the surname Penfield?
- 1,247 people in the United States had the surname Penfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 247,591 Americans. It ranked 21,068th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Penfield?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Penfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Penfield getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,154 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,247 in 2010, up 8.1%.