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The PETTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 654 33020 0 2
United States (1880 census) 251 16330 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +403 -16690 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 27 41310 0 2
United Kingdom 187 17145 0 4
Top States for PETTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 209 8138 0.001 10
California 55 36731 0.000 2
Michigan 47 24544 0.000 5
Washington 40 16439 0.001 7
Kentucky 33 9144 0.001 8
Top States for PETTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 209 8138 0.001 10
Idaho 11 14526 0.001 9
Kentucky 33 9144 0.001 8
Arkansas 20 10381 0.001 7
Washington 40 16439 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of PETTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PETTER 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PETTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PETTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 577 88.23
Black/African American 36 5.5
White (Hispanic) 25 3.82
Mixed Race 7 1.07
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PETTER in historical publications

PETTER. FETTERS. Mispronunciations of Peter and Peters.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PETTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTER.

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 PETTER

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