as a Last Name
- 3,000
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Penton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from Penton Mewsey, Hampshire, which is named with Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, i.e. a farmstead paying a penny rent.
| 9,298th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,000
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Penton per capita
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