The PETIT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,403	5869	0.002	20
United States (1880 census)	1,258	4483	0.003	25
Change since 1880	+4145	-1386	-0.001	-5
Other Countries
Australia	60	21958	0	4
United Kingdom	238	14793	0.001	5

Top States for PETIT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	849	2201	0.005	53
New York	343	5136	0.002	18
Massachusetts	337	2407	0.005	53
Louisiana	310	1843	0.007	69
Ohio	289	4393	0.003	25
Top States for PETIT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	158	857	0.015	151
Vermont	50	1960	0.008	82
Louisiana	310	1843	0.007	69
Maine	85	2348	0.007	67
New Hampshire	70	2469	0.006	57

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

Classification and Origin of PETIT

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PETIT 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.

Ethnic distribution of PETIT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	749	13.86
White (Hispanic)	161	2.98
Mixed Race	142	2.63
Native American/Alaskan	29	0.54
Asian/Pacific	20	0.37
White (Caucasian)	4,302	79.62

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

Similar names to PETIT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETIT.

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.