The PETTA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	698	31389	0	3
United States (1880 census)	22	71482	0	0
Change since 1880	+676	+40093	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	43	28970	0	3
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PETTA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	101	17205	0.001	5
California	87	24346	0.000	3
Illinois	71	17342	0.001	6
Texas	67	19936	0.000	3
Wisconsin	54	15394	0.001	10
Top States for PETTA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Connecticut	47	9131	0.001	14
Wisconsin	54	15394	0.001	10
Nebraska	10	21785	0.001	6
Illinois	71	17342	0.001	6
Massachusetts	35	19510	0.001	6

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

Classification and Origin of PETTA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PETTA 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.

Ethnic distribution of PETTA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	660	94.56
White (Hispanic)	15	2.15
Mixed Race	10	1.43
Asian/Pacific	7	1
Black/African American	6	0.86
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to PETTA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTA.

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.