Pentland
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Middle English
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɛntɫənd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pentland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 124K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 581K
- SSSouth Sudan≈1 in 27K
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)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
573 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
South Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Middle English.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pentland 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 | — | 573 | 1 in 581K | 577 | Pentland | 176 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 124K | 570 | Pentland | 109 |
| SS South Sudan | #225 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Pentland | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Pentland | 83 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Pentland | 78 |
| LS Lesotho | #344 | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Pentland | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Pentland | 8 |
573 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
- Joseph Barclay Pentlandb. 1797IEIrish naturalist and explorer (1797-1873)
- Lawrence Pentlandb. 1879CACanadian lacrosse player (1879–1923)
- Fred Pentlandb. 1883GBEnglish footballer and manager (1883-1962)
- Alan Pentlandb. 1883AUAustralian rules footballer and cricketer (1883-1952)
- Norman Pentlandb. 1912GBBritish politician (1912-1972)
- Barbara Pentlandb. 1912CACanadian composer (1912–2000)
- Jeff Pentlandb. 1946USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Alex Pentlandb. 1952USAmerican academic and entrepreneur
- Dwayne Pentlandb. 1953CACanadian ice hockey player
- Louise Pentlandb. 1985GBEnglish blogger (born 1985)
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 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 577 | #40,800 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 573 | #38,582 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 570 | #10,240 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 534 | #38,890 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Pentland mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Middle English. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pentland?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛntɫənd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pentland have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 573 people named Pentland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pentland.
- How common is the name Pentland?
- In the United States, the national register counted 573 people named Pentland in 2010, about 1 in 581 thousand residents.
- How common is Pentland compared with other names?
- In South Sudan, Pentland is the 225th most common surname of 3,406 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pentlandThe 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, “Pentland” — the 225th most common surname in South Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.