Pentón
surname · Latin script
Pentón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Hants. locative name from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hants), which are recorded as Peninton Abbatis and Penintona Roberti respectively in 1167.
- CACanada≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 100K
- GHGhana≈1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Penton in US United States, CA Canada, EG Egypt and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Penton Graftonor(measured from records)
- Old Englishpening(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Hants. locative name from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hants), which are recorded as Peninton Abbatis and Penintona Roberti respectively in 1167. The place-names derive from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Further information: It is noted in Ekwall, DEPN that Penton Grafton belonged to the Abbey of Grestayn in Normandy, and Penton Mewsey was held by Robert de Meisy in 1212.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pentón counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Penton | 3 |
| US United States | — | 3,321 | 1 in 100K | 3.3K | Penton | 259 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Penton | 2 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Penton | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Penton | 83 |
| CU Cuba | #690 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Penton | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 35 | 1 in 97K | 35 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pentón mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Hants. locative name from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hants), which are recorded as Peninton Abbatis and Penintona Roberti respectively in 1167. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Pentón have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Pentón in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled penton.
- How common is the name Pentón?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,321 people named Pentón in 2010, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
- How common is Pentón compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Pentón is the 690th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pentón” — the 690th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.