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The PELLETIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,267 1911 0.006 64
United States (1880 census) 482 9977 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +16785 +8066 +0.005 +54
Other Countries
Australia 39 31071 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PELLETIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 3,075 14 0.241 2,412
Massachusetts 2,685 227 0.042 423
Connecticut 1,869 99 0.055 549
New Hampshire 1,381 37 0.112 1,118
Florida 1,249 1468 0.008 78
Top States for PELLETIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 3,075 14 0.241 2,412
New Hampshire 1,381 37 0.112 1,118
Delaware 535 154 0.068 683
Connecticut 1,869 99 0.055 549
Rhode Island 536 136 0.051 511

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

Classification and Origin of PELLETIER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 219 1.27
Mixed Race 192 1.11
Native American/Alaskan 71 0.41
Asian/Pacific 59 0.34
Black/African American 52 0.3
White (Caucasian) 16,676 96.58

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

Meaning of PELLETIER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PELLETIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PELLETIER.

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 PELLETIER

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