The PETTENGILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,961	14084	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	573	8662	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+1388	-5422	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	1	333742	0	0
United Kingdom	5	32505	0	0

Top States for PETTENGILL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	217	13180	0.001	6
Maine	215	1329	0.017	169
Massachusetts	201	4780	0.003	32
Michigan	168	8514	0.002	17
New Hampshire	133	1696	0.011	108
Top States for PETTENGILL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	215	1329	0.017	169
New Hampshire	133	1696	0.011	108
Vermont	22	4721	0.004	36
Massachusetts	201	4780	0.003	32
Iowa	56	9437	0.002	19

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

Classification and Origin of PETTENGILL

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

Ethnic distribution of PETTENGILL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	63	3.21
Mixed Race	46	2.35
Asian/Pacific	19	0.97
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.36
Black/African American	5	0.25
White (Caucasian)	1,821	92.86

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

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

Similar names to PETTENGILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTENGILL.

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.