The PETTIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,113	21791	0	4
United States (1880 census)	427	10932	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+686	-10859	+N/A	-5
Other Countries
Australia	19	54685	0	1
United Kingdom	137	20531	0	3

Top States for PETTIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	102	7812	0.001	14
Maryland	101	6479	0.002	19
Texas	98	17252	0.000	5
Alabama	85	5793	0.002	19
California	72	34328	0.000	2
Top States for PETTIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	12	5401	0.002	21
North Dakota	13	9455	0.002	20
Alabama	85	5793	0.002	19
Maryland	101	6479	0.002	19
Virginia	102	7812	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of PETTIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PETTIE 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 PETTIE 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 PETTIE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	673	60.47
Black/African American	370	33.24
Mixed Race	31	2.79
White (Hispanic)	23	2.07
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.9
Asian/Pacific	6	0.54

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

Similar names to PETTIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTIE.

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.