The PAYETTE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,303	19248	0	5
United States (1880 census)	142	24647	0	3
Change since 1880	+1161	+5399	+N/A	+2
Other Countries
Australia	2	228618	0	0
United Kingdom	3	33973	0	0

Top States for PAYETTE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	111	6854	0.002	17
Florida	107	15188	0.001	7
Wisconsin	106	7471	0.002	20
California	87	24342	0.000	3
Minnesota	82	8734	0.002	17
Top States for PAYETTE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	74	2062	0.007	71
Vermont	36	2689	0.006	59
New Hampshire	46	3555	0.004	37
Delaware	28	4624	0.004	36
Wisconsin	106	7471	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of PAYETTE

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

Ethnic distribution of PAYETTE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	17	1.3
Mixed Race	14	1.07
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.54
Asian/Pacific	6	0.46
Black/African American	6	0.46
White (Caucasian)	1,253	96.16

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

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

Similar names to PAYETTE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAYETTE.

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.