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The PETTIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,113 21791 0 4
United States (1880 census) 427 10932 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +686 -10859 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 19 54685 0 1
United Kingdom 137 20531 0 3
Top States for PETTIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 102 7812 0.001 14
Maryland 101 6479 0.002 19
Texas 98 17252 0.000 5
Alabama 85 5793 0.002 19
California 72 34328 0.000 2
Top States for PETTIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 12 5401 0.002 21
North Dakota 13 9455 0.002 20
Alabama 85 5793 0.002 19
Maryland 101 6479 0.002 19
Virginia 102 7812 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of PETTIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 673 60.47
Black/African American 370 33.24
Mixed Race 31 2.79
White (Hispanic) 23 2.07
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.9
Asian/Pacific 6 0.54

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

Meaning of PETTIE in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETTIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTIE.

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 PETTIE

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