How common is the surname Penley?

2,624 people in the United States had the surname Penley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,662 Americans. It ranked 11,928th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Penley?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Penley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Penley getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,629 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,624 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Penley

A surname, carried by 2,624 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P540

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Penley is more common than 92.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,624 people named Penley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 117,662 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,629.

#11,928

rank among US surnames

2,624

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #11,088)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,919	Karsten	2,627	117,528
#11,925	Festa	2,626	117,573
#11,926	Brass	2,625	117,617
#11,928	Polansky	2,624	117,662
#11,932	Kamal	2,623	117,707
#11,933	Ballance	2,622	117,752
#11,936	Okane	2,621	117,797

Who is named Penley

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

97% of people named Penley identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Penley

Penley has the Soundex code P540, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P540.

Questions

How common is the surname Penley?: 2,624 people in the United States had the surname Penley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,662 Americans. It ranked 11,928th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Penley?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Penley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Penley getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,629 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,624 in 2010, down 0.2%.