Penny

Penny is the 3,670th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,425 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 31,700.

By the numbers

People: 9,425
Rank: 3,670th
How common: 1 in 31,700
Per 100,000: 3.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.7%
Black, not Hispanic 21.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Penny

Louise Penny (born 1958)Canadian writer
Sydney Penny (born 1971)American actress
Diego Penny (born 1984)Peruvian footballer
Laurie Penny (born 1986)English journalist, columnist and author
Joe Penny (born 1956)actor
Brendan Penny (born 2000)actor
Christopher Penny (born 1962)American rower

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

Surnames like Penny

Also a first name

Penny has been given to 101,003 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1963. 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.