Pennington

Pennington is the 862nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 39,335 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,599.

By the numbers

People: 39,335
Rank: 862nd
How common: 1 in 7,599
Per 100,000: 13.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.8%
Black, not Hispanic 7.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Pennington

Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952)American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer
Matthew Pennington (born 1994)English association football player
Ty Pennington (born 1964)American television host
Raquel Pennington (born 1988)mixed martial artist
Ann Pennington (1893–1971)American dancer, actress and singer

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

Surnames like Pennington

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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.