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The PETTES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 251 72237 0 1
United States (1880 census) 129 26469 0 3
Change since 1880 +122 -45768 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PETTES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Mexico 29 5651 0.002 16
Tennessee 26 14737 0.000 5
Michigan 24 49454 0.000 2
California 22 93673 0.000 1
Colorado 22 24263 0.001 5
Top States for PETTES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Mexico 29 5651 0.002 16
Colorado 22 24263 0.001 5
Tennessee 26 14737 0.000 5
Nevada 6 41752 0.000 3
Kansas 7 32937 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of PETTES

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

Ethnic distribution of PETTES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 121 48.21
Black/African American 110 43.82
White (Hispanic) 11 4.38
Mixed Race 8 3.19
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PETTES in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETTES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTES.

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 PETTES

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