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The PETITE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 790 28433 0 3
United States (1880 census) 91 33550 0 2
Change since 1880 +699 +5117 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 6 127683 0 0
United Kingdom 28 27797 0 1
Top States for PETITE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 92 6105 0.002 21
California 83 30032 0.000 2
Texas 62 24282 0.000 3
Ohio 61 22696 0.001 5
Alabama 51 8001 0.001 11
Top States for PETITE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 92 6105 0.002 21
Alabama 51 8001 0.001 11
Wisconsin 44 22074 0.001 8
Nevada 13 20120 0.001 7
Minnesota 31 27070 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of PETITE

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

Ethnic distribution of PETITE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 375 47.47
Black/African American 321 40.63
Native American/Alaskan 55 6.96
Mixed Race 26 3.29
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PETITE in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETITE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETITE.

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 PETITE

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