Last Name PENSON

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Meaning	The son of Penny. Pennyson is early found. With Pensom similar to Ransom for Ranson, and Sampson for Sansom. The son of Pain.

Origin	English, Irish, Belgian

Rank	16,871 (2000 US census)	11,477 (1990 US census)

Count	1,557 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

39.5%, or 615 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
53.18%, or 828 total occurrences, as black,
1.03%, or 16 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.39%, or 6 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.12%, or 33 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
3.79%, or 59 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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