Penniman
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɛnɪmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Penniman is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Frances Montresor Buchanan Allen Pennimanb. 1760USAmerican botanist (1760-1834)
- Jabez Pennimanb. 176428 Sep 1764 - 1 Sep 1841
- Ebenezer J. Pennimanb. 1804USAmerican politician (1804-1890)
- George Henry Pennimanb. 1830Millionaire
- Howard Rae Pennimanb. 1916USAmerican political scientist (1916-1995)
- Little Richardb. 1932USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (1932–2020)
- Glasses Maloneb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Mikab. 1983LBnot in their usual nameBritish-Lebanese musician, singer and songwriter
- Naima PennimanUSAmerican poet and farmer
- Leah PennimanUSFarmer, educator, and food sovereignty activist
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 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 780 | #30,076 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 734 | #30,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 637 | #37,540 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Penniman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛnɪmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Penniman have the most bearers?
- Penniman is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Penniman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pennimanThe 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, “Penniman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.