# Pentland (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pentland/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Middle English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 573 |
| US rank (2010) | 38,582 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 538,823 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.3% (534 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Scottish habitational surname from a minor place near Edinburgh, perhaps from Middle English pent (“confined, enclosed”) + land (“land”). Another possibility is Cumbric *pant (“hollow”) or Cumbric *penn (“head, summit, top”) + Cumbric *lann (“enclosure”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pentland in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 90% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.9% |
| Two or more races | 3.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pentland in the United States.

## People named Pentland

- Alex Pentland, American academic and entrepreneur

## Similar surnames

Pendleton, Pendley, Pantaleon.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.