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The PETTAWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,500 11536 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 64 43246 0 1
Change since 1880 +2436 +31710 +N/A +8
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PETTAWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 515 1750 0.012 116
North Carolina 317 3874 0.004 39
Virginia 246 4271 0.003 35
Ohio 215 8000 0.002 19
Maryland 173 4337 0.003 33
Top States for PETTAWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 515 1750 0.012 116
North Carolina 317 3874 0.004 39
Washington DC 21 3574 0.004 37
Virginia 246 4271 0.003 35
Maryland 173 4337 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of PETTAWAY

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

Ethnic distribution of PETTAWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 97 3.88
Mixed Race 71 2.84
White (Hispanic) 30 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.24
Asian/Pacific 5 0.2
Black/African American 2,291 91.64

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

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

Meaning of PETTAWAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETTAWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTAWAY.

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 PETTAWAY

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