Penrose

At the 2020 census, 2,588 Americans bore the surname Penrose — 11,608th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 115,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,588
Rank: 11,608th
How common: 1 in 115,000
Per 100,000: 0.87

Where the name comes from

Origin Cornish

From Cornish penn (“head”) + ros (“moor, heathland”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.8%
Black, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Penrose

Roger Penrose (born 1931)English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
Beryl Penrose (1930–2021)Australian tennis player
Roland Penrose (1900–1984)British artist and art historian
Jonathan Penrose (1933–2021)English chess player
Valentine Penrose (1898–1978)French writer and artist
Oliver Penrose (born 1929)British physicist, mathematician
Lionel Penrose (1898–1972)British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician, and chess theorist (*1898 – †1972)
Edith Penrose (1914–1996)American-born British economist

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

Surnames like Penrose

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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.