How common is the surname Penton?

3,321 people in the United States had the surname Penton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,968 Americans. It ranked 9,760th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Penton?

In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Penton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Penton getting more or less common?

More common. 3,041 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,321 in 2010, up 9.2%.

The surname Penton

A surname, carried by 3,321 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P535

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Penton is more common than 94% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,321 people named Penton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 92,968 Americans. That is up 9.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,041.

#9,760

rank among US surnames

3,321

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+9.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,817)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,751	Wash	3,324	92,884
#9,754	Latour	3,323	92,912
#9,756	Paynter	3,322	92,940
#9,760	Penton	3,321	92,968
#9,761	Struck	3,320	92,996
#9,765	Channell	3,318	93,052
#9,767	Percival	3,317	93,080

Who is named Penton

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

77% of people named Penton identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 7.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 77%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 13%
Black (not Hispanic) 7.4%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Penton

Penton has the Soundex code P535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P535.

Questions

How common is the surname Penton?: 3,321 people in the United States had the surname Penton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,968 Americans. It ranked 9,760th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Penton?: In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Penton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Penton getting more or less common?: More common. 3,041 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,321 in 2010, up 9.2%.