Pence

11,408 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pence in the 2020 census, making it the 3,072nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 26,200.

By the numbers

People: 11,408
Rank: 3,072nd
How common: 1 in 26,200
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Americanized spelling of German Pentz or Benz.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pence described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Pence

Mike Pence (born 1959)Vice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Karen Pence (born 1957)Second Lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Josh Pence (born 1982)American actor
Hunter Pence (born 1983)American baseball player
Greg Pence (born 1956)American businessman and politician

People named Pence with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pence

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.