The PETRIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,234	3958	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	2,082	2874	0.004	42
Change since 1880	+6152	-1084	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	1,211	1367	0.007	74
United Kingdom	4,472	1403	0.01	97

Top States for PETRIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,033	1778	0.005	54
California	660	4429	0.002	19
Florida	523	3912	0.003	33
Wisconsin	520	1227	0.010	97
Ohio	395	3560	0.003	35
Top States for PETRIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	74	1057	0.012	118
Vermont	61	1765	0.010	100
Wisconsin	520	1227	0.010	97
Maine	79	2679	0.006	62
Oregon	198	2168	0.006	58

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

Classification and Origin of PETRIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	293	3.56
White (Hispanic)	124	1.51
Mixed Race	92	1.12
Native American/Alaskan	34	0.41
Asian/Pacific	24	0.29
White (Caucasian)	7,667	93.11

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

Similar names to PETRIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETRIE.

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.