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The PETROWSKI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,068 22481 0 4
United States (1880 census) 6 95712 0 0
Change since 1880 +1062 +73231 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 9 94795 0 1
United Kingdom 5 32289 0 0
Top States for PETROWSKI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 132 9525 0.001 13
New Jersey 94 10500 0.001 11
New York 90 20476 0.000 5
Wisconsin 80 11041 0.001 15
Pennsylvania 71 20170 0.001 6
Top States for PETROWSKI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 67 6831 0.002 20
Wisconsin 80 11041 0.001 15
Michigan 132 9525 0.001 13
New Jersey 94 10500 0.001 11
Tennessee 63 8134 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of PETROWSKI

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

Ethnic distribution of PETROWSKI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 14 1.31
White (Hispanic) 12 1.12
White (Caucasian) 1,037 97.1
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of PETROWSKI in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETROWSKI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETROWSKI.

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 PETROWSKI

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