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The PITNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 794 28326 0 3
United States (1880 census) 318 13678 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +476 -14648 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 31 37381 0 2
United Kingdom 145 19865 0 3
Top States for PITNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 83 14558 0.001 7
California 65 31798 0.000 2
Connecticut 59 7234 0.002 17
Kentucky 52 6763 0.001 13
Oregon 46 8631 0.001 13
Top States for PITNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 59 7234 0.002 17
Oregon 46 8631 0.001 13
Kentucky 52 6763 0.001 13
Colorado 36 13830 0.001 8
Ohio 83 14558 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 PITNEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PITNEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PITNEY in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PITNEY by picking someone at random in Connecticut than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PITNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 685 86.27
Black/African American 68 8.56
White (Hispanic) 24 3.02
Mixed Race 11 1.39
Asian/Pacific 6 0.76
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of PITNEY in historical publications

PITNEY. A parish in Somersetshire.

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 PITNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PITNEY.

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 PITNEY

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