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The FITCHETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,759 15340 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 496 9739 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1263 -5601 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 106 13611 0.001 6
United Kingdom 1,022 5187 0.002 22
Top States for FITCHETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 367 2662 0.005 52
Michigan 132 10408 0.001 13
Maryland 119 5339 0.002 22
Florida 115 16243 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 94 16766 0.001 8
Top States for FITCHETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 367 2662 0.005 52
Delaware 33 4539 0.004 42
West Virginia 46 4258 0.003 25
Maryland 119 5339 0.002 22
Montana 19 8275 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of FITCHETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 460 26.15
White (Hispanic) 124 7.05
Mixed Race 43 2.44
Asian/Pacific 7 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.34
White (Caucasian) 1,119 63.62

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

Meaning of FITCHETT in historical publications

FITCHETT. A polecat: formerly a term of contempt. It may have a much more respectable origin, from Jowfichett, "which see. Fichet, without 23refix, is found in H.R.

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 FITCHETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FITCHETT.

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 FITCHETT

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