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The PETROS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 985 23922 0 4
United States (1880 census) 4 102876 0 0
Change since 1880 +981 +78954 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 45 27690 0 3
United Kingdom 38 26836 0 1
Top States for PETROS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 156 13531 0.000 5
Pennsylvania 90 13878 0.001 7
Michigan 87 12380 0.001 9
Ohio 86 12914 0.001 8
Illinois 71 15895 0.001 6
Top States for PETROS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 21 3838 0.003 33
Maine 16 7941 0.001 13
Washington DC 7 6914 0.001 12
Michigan 87 12380 0.001 9
West Virginia 14 8466 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of PETROS

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

Ethnic distribution of PETROS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 861 87.41
Black/African American 68 6.9
Mixed Race 30 3.05
Asian/Pacific 13 1.32
White (Hispanic) 13 1.32
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of PETROS in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETROS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETROS.

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 PETROS

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