The PETRI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,885	10248	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	565	8750	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+2320	-1498	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	50	25360	0	3
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PETRI by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	292	2380	0.005	54
California	268	9615	0.001	8
Illinois	251	5095	0.002	20
Texas	234	7784	0.001	11
New York	189	9936	0.001	10
Top States for PETRI by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	292	2380	0.005	54
Wyoming	15	4768	0.003	30
Montana	25	5629	0.003	28
North Dakota	17	6657	0.003	26
Illinois	251	5095	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 PETRI live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PETRI represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PETRI in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PETRI by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PETRI

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Greece

Language of origin: Greek

Ethnic origin: Hellenic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	59	2.05
Mixed Race	34	1.18
Asian/Pacific	21	0.73
Black/African American	14	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.31
White (Caucasian)	2,748	95.25

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

Similar names to PETRI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETRI.

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.