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The PETTA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 698 31389 0 3
United States (1880 census) 22 71482 0 0
Change since 1880 +676 +40093 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 43 28970 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PETTA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 101 17205 0.001 5
California 87 24346 0.000 3
Illinois 71 17342 0.001 6
Texas 67 19936 0.000 3
Wisconsin 54 15394 0.001 10
Top States for PETTA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 47 9131 0.001 14
Wisconsin 54 15394 0.001 10
Nebraska 10 21785 0.001 6
Illinois 71 17342 0.001 6
Massachusetts 35 19510 0.001 6

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PETTA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PETTA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PETTA in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PETTA by picking someone at random in Connecticut than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PETTA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PETTA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PETTA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 660 94.56
White (Hispanic) 15 2.15
Mixed Race 10 1.43
Asian/Pacific 7 1
Black/African American 6 0.86
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PETTA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PETTA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PETTA.

Similar names to PETTA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PETTA

The following words are slight variants of PETTA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.