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The PETTET surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 734 30120 0 3
United States (1880 census) 411 11263 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +323 -18857 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 139 10606 0.001 9
United Kingdom 406 10334 0.001 9
Top States for PETTET by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 106 12481 0.001 9
Missouri 74 9472 0.001 13
Indiana 65 10953 0.001 11
California 60 36732 0.000 2
Washington 36 19470 0.001 6
Top States for PETTET by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 74 9472 0.001 13
Indiana 65 10953 0.001 11
Ohio 106 12481 0.001 9
Colorado 32 16721 0.001 7
Utah 16 12028 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of PETTET

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PETTET surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PETTET in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 691 94.14
White (Hispanic) 15 2.04
Mixed Race 12 1.63
Asian/Pacific 8 1.09
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PETTET in historical publications

PETTET. As Petit.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PETTET

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTET.

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 PETTET

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