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The PETRE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,522 17170 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 558 8839 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +964 -8331 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 61 21751 0 4
United Kingdom 322 12170 0.001 7
Top States for PETRE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 124 15917 0.001 7
California 118 20817 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 118 13098 0.001 10
Indiana 108 7158 0.002 18
Michigan 99 13261 0.001 10
Top States for PETRE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 108 7158 0.002 18
Missouri 82 8878 0.001 15
Alaska 8 13352 0.001 13
Nevada 22 11012 0.001 11
Michigan 99 13261 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of PETRE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 23 1.51
Asian/Pacific 17 1.12
Black/African American 17 1.12
Mixed Race 16 1.05
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.46
White (Caucasian) 1,442 94.74

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

Meaning of PETRE in historical publications

PETRE. The Petres rose to eminence on the ruins of the monasteries, under Henry VIII. The name is apparentl}' a variation of Peter, the Christian name. See Peter.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PETRE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETRE.

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 PETRE

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