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The surname Permenter

A surname, carried by 1,795 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P655

Permenter: #16,125 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Permenter #16,125, 1,795 people Permenter: #16,125 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Permenter #16,125, 1,795 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Permenter is more common than 90.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,795 people named Permenter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,003 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,707.

#16,125
rank among US surnames
1,795
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+5.2%
change since 2000 (was #15,710)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,120Cortright1,796171,907
#16,125Kinnaman1,795172,003
#16,130Dickison1,794172,099

Who is named Permenter

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

82% of people named Permenter identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 82%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • 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 Permenter

Permenter has the Soundex code P655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P655.

Questions

How common is the surname Permenter?
1,795 people in the United States had the surname Permenter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,003 Americans. It ranked 16,125th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Permenter?
In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Permenter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Permenter getting more or less common?
More common. 1,707 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,795 in 2010, up 5.2%.