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The PETTIFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,985 9973 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 419 11073 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +2566 +1100 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 181 8276 0.001 11
United Kingdom 129 21332 0 3
Top States for PETTIFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 843 1731 0.010 105
New Jersey 257 4612 0.003 31
Georgia 196 4941 0.002 24
Ohio 177 9218 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 155 11783 0.001 13
Top States for PETTIFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 843 1731 0.010 105
Washington DC 20 3575 0.003 35
New Jersey 257 4612 0.003 31
Maryland 138 5220 0.003 26
Georgia 196 4941 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of PETTIFORD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 233 7.81
Mixed Race 120 4.02
White (Hispanic) 53 1.78
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.7
Asian/Pacific 15 0.5
Black/African American 2,543 85.19

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

Meaning of PETTIFORD in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETTIFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTIFORD.

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 PETTIFORD

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