Pondexter Surname

570,540th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 553 people bear this surname

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

Pondexter Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pondexter Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States5501:659,01652,733
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1371:366,56027,735

Pondexter (23) may also be a first name.

Pondexter Last Name Facts

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

Pondexter is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Pondexter? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 570,540th most prevalent surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 13,178,202 people. The last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 99 percent of Pondexter reside; 99 percent reside in North America and 99 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Pondexter is also the 2,239,265th most commonly held given name worldwide, held by 23 people.

The surname Pondexter is most frequently used in The United States, where it is borne by 550 people, or 1 in 659,016. In The United States Pondexter is primarily concentrated in: Illinois, where 15 percent are found, South Carolina, where 9 percent are found and New York, where 9 percent are found. Apart from The United States it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 0 percent are found and The Philippines, where 0 percent are found.

Pondexter Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Pondexter has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Pondexter last name increased 401 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Pondexter Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Pondexter are 1.54% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 51.69% registered with the political party.

Pondexter earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 15.39% less than the national average, earning $36,507 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Pondexter
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