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The PETTRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,499 17370 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 48 50311 0 1
Change since 1880 +1451 +32941 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PETTRY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 498 653 0.028 275
Ohio 321 5112 0.003 28
Florida 135 15191 0.001 8
Virginia 99 8258 0.001 14
Illinois 67 23208 0.001 5
Top States for PETTRY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 498 653 0.028 275
Ohio 321 5112 0.003 28
Virginia 99 8258 0.001 14
Wyoming 5 15534 0.001 10
Florida 135 15191 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of PETTRY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PETTRY surname.

Ethnic distribution of PETTRY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 21 1.4
Mixed Race 17 1.13
Asian/Pacific 11 0.73
White (Caucasian) 1,439 96
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

PETTRY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PETTRY in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETTRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTRY.

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 PETTRY

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