Pendergast
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpɛndɝˌɡæst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pendergast is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Prendergast.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 65K
- CACanada≈1 in 76K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
3,302 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Variant of Prendergast.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pendergast 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,302 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Pendergast | 304 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | 302 | Pendergast | 82 |
| IT Italy | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Pendergast | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Pendergast | 95 |
| CA Canada | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Pendergast | 82 |
| IE Ireland | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Pendergast | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Pendergast | 11 |
3,302 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Pendergastb. 1856USAmerican politician (1856–1911)
- Tom Pendergastb. 1872USAmerican politician (1872-1945)
- Bill Pendergastb. 1915GBassociation football player (1915-2001)
- David M. Pendergastb. 1934GBAmerican archaeologist
- Anna Pendergastb. 1961CACanadian basketball player (born 1961)
- Leeanna Pendergastb. 1962CACanadian politician
- Sara Pendergastb. 1968American cultural studies scholar and editor
- Victoria Pendergastb. 1991AUParalympian
- Emily PendergastUSAmerican television actress
- Donna PendergastAUDean of Education
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,803 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,963 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 302 | #16,292 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pendergast mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Prendergast. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Pendergast?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛndɝˌɡæst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pendergast have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Pendergast, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pendergast.
- How common is the name Pendergast?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,302 people named Pendergast in 2010, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pendergastThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Pendergast”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.