Penney

At the 2020 census, 5,633 Americans bore the surname Penney — 5,896th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 53,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,633
Rank: 5,896th
How common: 1 in 53,100
Per 100,000: 1.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Penney

William Penney, Baron Penney (1909–1991)English mathematician and physicist
Kirk Penney (born 1980)New Zealand basketball player
Steve Penney (born 1964)Northern Irish footballer

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

Surnames like Penney

Also a first name

Penney has been given to 1,951 American babies as a first name since 1925, peaking in 1962. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.