Pendleton

At the 2020 census, 15,691 Americans bore the surname Pendleton — 2,258th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,000.

By the numbers

People: 15,691
Rank: 2,258th
How common: 1 in 19,000
Per 100,000: 5.3

Where the name comes from

'The settlement beside Pendle', from Pendle + Old English tūn (“settlement”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.8%
Black, not Hispanic 20.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Pendleton

Victoria Pendleton (born 1980)British cyclist and jockey
Austin Pendleton (born 1940)American actor and director
Nat Pendleton (1895–1967)American Olympic wrestler and actor
George H. Pendleton (1825–1889)American lawyer, politician and businessman
Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803)American politician
William N. Pendleton (1809–1883)Confederate Army general

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

Surnames like Pendleton

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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.