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The PETTAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 300 62396 0 1
United States (1880 census) 38 56516 0 1
Change since 1880 +262 -5880 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PETTAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 76 16342 0.001 7
Florida 34 42555 0.000 2
Kansas 30 10289 0.001 11
Texas 28 39490 0.000 1
Indiana 18 29056 0.000 3
Top States for PETTAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 30 10289 0.001 11
Ohio 76 16342 0.001 7
South Carolina 13 19569 0.000 3
Arkansas 8 21016 0.000 3
Indiana 18 29056 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of PETTAY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PETTAY surname.

Ethnic distribution of PETTAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 283 94.33
Black/African American 8 2.67
White (Hispanic) 8 2.67
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

PETTAY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PETTAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETTAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTAY.

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 PETTAY

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