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The PITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,666 3755 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 2,052 2921 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +6614 -834 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 2,666 591 0.016 163
United Kingdom 7,366 838 0.016 160
Top States for PITT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 733 2751 0.004 39
North Carolina 673 1836 0.008 84
California 574 5203 0.002 17
Florida 495 4308 0.003 31
Tennessee 442 2023 0.008 78
Top States for PITT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 63 950 0.013 128
North Carolina 673 1836 0.008 84
Tennessee 442 2023 0.008 78
Utah 166 1898 0.007 74
Maryland 365 1765 0.007 69

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

Classification and Origin of PITT

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 PITT 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 PITT 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 PITT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 150 1.73
White (Hispanic) 135 1.56
Native American/Alaskan 47 0.54
Asian/Pacific 37 0.43
White (Caucasian) 5,873 67.77
Black/African American 2,424 27.97

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

Meaning of PITT in historical publications

PITT. PIT. From residence in the

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 PITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PITT.

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 PITT

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