The GETTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,872	10282	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	1,116	4981	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+1756	-5301	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	12	78450	0	1
United Kingdom	638	7427	0.001	14

Top States for GETTY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	517	3103	0.004	42
California	267	10166	0.001	8
New York	180	11067	0.001	9
Illinois	166	8255	0.001	13
Washington	129	5923	0.002	22
Top States for GETTY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	38	2800	0.006	62
Pennsylvania	517	3103	0.004	42
South Dakota	28	5004	0.004	37
Delaware	28	5106	0.004	36
New Hampshire	28	5943	0.002	23

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GETTY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	56	1.95
Black/African American	48	1.67
Asian/Pacific	33	1.15
Mixed Race	25	0.87
Native American/Alaskan	18	0.63
White (Caucasian)	2,692	93.73

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

Similar names to GETTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GETTY.

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.