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    The surname Penfold

    A place surname, carried by 893 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P514

    Penfold: #27,110 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Penfold #27,110, 893 people Penfold: #27,110 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Penfold #27,110, 893 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Penfold is more common than 83.3% of them.

    Origin

    From penfold, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a pound for stray animals.

    Penfold 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 893 people named Penfold in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 345,740 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 832.

    #27,110
    rank among US surnames
    893
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.3%
    change since 2000 (was #27,313)

    Who is named Penfold

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

    93% of people named Penfold identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.7%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Pennifold

    Surnames that sound like Penfold

    Penfold has the Soundex code P514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P514.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Penfold come from?
    From penfold, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a pound for stray animals.
    How common is the surname Penfold?
    893 people in the United States had the surname Penfold in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 345,740 Americans. It ranked 27,110th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Penfold?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Penfold identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Penfold?
    Penfold is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Penfold getting more or less common?
    More common. 832 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 893 in 2010, up 7.3%.
    What are other spellings of Penfold?
    Pennifold.