Pentland Surname

161,453rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,697 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Northern Ireland

Pentland Surname Definition:

From Pentland, the name of an ancient but suppressed parish in Midlothian. Adam of Pentfand was a monk of Holyrood in 1298-9 (Bain, II, 1052). Ralph de Penteland was sent to Montrose to arrest a vessel in 1304-5, and at the same date there is entry of a payment to John de Pentland for loading and unloading wool and hides (ibid.

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Pentland Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States7081:511,94842,890
Australia5231:51,6176,382
Canada5011:73,5448,341
England4841:115,12011,771
Scotland2351:22,7822,567
Northern Ireland1741:10,6041,650
Wales341:91,0167,411
Mexico51:24,825,24158,251
Thailand51:14,127,669603,945
South Africa51:10,835,541204,227
Malaysia31:9,831,408269,765
Cyprus31:294,9598,690
Ireland21:2,354,47019,715
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
New Zealand21:2,264,16249,210
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Slovakia11:5,336,450140,422
Guernsey11:64,4392,137
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Maldives11:404,1727,269
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland2351:18,8502,263
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1861:131,05012,125
Scotland1441:25,9952,349
Wales221:71,2923,399
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1001:502,18735,305

Pentland Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

From Pentland, the name of an ancient but suppressed parish in Midlothian. Adam of Pentfand was a monk of Holyrood in 1298-9 (Bain, II, 1052). Ralph de Penteland was sent to Montrose to arrest a vessel in 1304-5, and at the same date there is entry of a payment to John de Pentland for loading and unloading wool and hides (ibid., II, p. 441,444). Thomas de Pentland held a land in Edinburgh in 1400 (Egidii, p. 37), William Pentland alias Godechild, a Scot, had letters of denization in England in 1480 (Bain, IV, 1465), George Paintland, servitor to Sir John Scott of Tarbett, was burgess of Glasgow in 1628 (Burgesses), and Robert Paintland was warded in the Canongate Tolbooth of Edinburgh in 1682 (DOEC., VIII, p. 123). Pentlain 1691.

The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

Belonging to Pentland (Firth, Parish, Hills) [We find the Old Norse form Pettaland fiörð-r in the Sagas, where Pettaland evid. indicates the land of the Pehts or Picts; but the first element of the name of the old Edinburgh parish and the Hills (12th cent. Pentlant) may rather be for the Cymric pen, a height, and the second represent O.Cym. lann (mod. llan) = Old Irish land, an enclosure, land] The Pentland Hills derive their name from a Brythonic Penn-llann, whence Pen-thland, with the usual thl for the strong spirant ll.—Rhys, Celtic Brit. (ed. 1908), P. 313.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

An ancient, but now extinct, parish in Edinburghshire.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Pentland Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Pentland Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Pentland is borne by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Pentland? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 161,453rd most commonly occurring surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 2,702,093 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 45 percent of Pentland live; 45 percent live in North America and 44 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The last name Pentland is most frequent in The United States, where it is borne by 708 people, or 1 in 511,948. In The United States Pentland is primarily concentrated in: Washington, where 9 percent are found, California, where 9 percent are found and Pennsylvania, where 8 percent are found. Excluding The United States it occurs in 25 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 19 percent are found and Canada, where 19 percent are found.

Pentland Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Pentland has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Pentland surname expanded 708 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 260 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 163 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 155 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it contracted 99 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Pentland Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the Pentland surname is predominantly Anglican (66%) in Ireland.

In The United States those holding the Pentland last name are 9.06% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 55.83% registered with the party.

The amount Pentland earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 21.46% more than the national average, earning R 288,636 per year; in United States they earn 5.28% more than the national average, earning $45,427 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.56% more than the national average, earning $53,437 CAD per year.

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