Surname statistics for Penman

There are approximately 4,357 people named Penman in the UK. That makes it the 2,400th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 69 are named Penman.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)43572400N/A69
United Kingdom (1881 census)195922430.00765
Change since 1881+2398-1570+4
Other Countries
United States187614563N/A7
Australia5502939N/A34

Politics

People with the surname Penman are slightly more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Penman are:

  1. Conservative (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Penman
James Penman
John Penman
Andrew Penman
Robert Penman
Ian Penman
Mark Penman
Kevin Penman
Steven Penman
William Penman
Alan Penman
Michael Penman
Stuart Penman
Gordon Penman
Ross Penman
George Penman
Charles Penman
Stephen Penman
Anthony Penman
Alexander Penman

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Penman
Jacqueline Penman
Gillian Penman
Julie Penman
Laura Penman
Janet Penman
Karen Penman
Linda Penman
Sarah Penman
Anne Penman
Susan Penman
Jennifer Penman
Yvonne Penman
Janette Penman
Fiona Penman
Catherine Penman
Jane Penman
Andrea Penman
Sharon Penman
Anthea Penman

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.