The history of your name

The PETTERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,024 9859 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 1,814 3266 0.004 36
Change since 1880 +1210 -6593 -0.003 -25
Other Countries
Australia 340 4637 0.002 21
United Kingdom 250 14324 0.001 5
Top States for PETTERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 367 7959 0.001 11
Minnesota 224 3209 0.005 46
Florida 183 10819 0.001 11
Texas 167 11105 0.001 8
Washington 154 5181 0.003 26
Top States for PETTERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 35 4022 0.005 46
Minnesota 224 3209 0.005 46
Idaho 51 3914 0.004 39
Oregon 117 4085 0.003 34
North Dakota 19 6659 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of PETTERSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PETTERSON 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 PETTERSON 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 PETTERSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 432 14.29
White (Hispanic) 94 3.11
Mixed Race 42 1.39
Asian/Pacific 19 0.63
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.46
White (Caucasian) 2,423 80.13

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

Meaning of PETTERSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETTERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTERSON.

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 PETTERSON

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