How common is the surname Penick?

3,259 people in the United States had the surname Penick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 94,736 Americans. It ranked 9,912th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Penick getting more or less common?

More common. 3,244 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,259 in 2010, up 0.5%.

The surname Penick

A surname, carried by 3,259 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Penick is more common than 93.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,259 people named Penick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 94,736 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,244.

#9,912

rank among US surnames

3,259

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+0.5%

change since 2000 (was #9,242)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,907	Chamblee	3,263	94,620
#9,910	Everly	3,262	94,649
#9,912	Mijares	3,259	94,736
#9,917	Deem	3,258	94,765
#9,919	McCully	3,256	94,824

Who is named Penick

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

77% of people named Penick identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 77%
Black (not Hispanic) 18%
Two or more races 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Penick

Penick has the Soundex code P520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P520.

Questions

How common is the surname Penick?: 3,259 people in the United States had the surname Penick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 94,736 Americans. It ranked 9,912th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Penick?: In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Penick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Penick getting more or less common?: More common. 3,244 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,259 in 2010, up 0.5%.