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The PETTINGILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 761 29296 0 3
United States (1880 census) 736 7074 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +25 -22222 +N/A -12
Other Countries
Australia 147 10103 0.001 9
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PETTINGILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 98 2411 0.004 44
Idaho 91 1584 0.007 70
Florida 56 23392 0.000 4
California 49 35492 0.000 1
Maine 34 4285 0.003 27
Top States for PETTINGILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 91 1584 0.007 70
Utah 98 2411 0.004 44
Maine 34 4285 0.003 27
Delaware 12 8947 0.002 15
Arkansas 31 6987 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of PETTINGILL

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

Ethnic distribution of PETTINGILL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 732 96.19
White (Hispanic) 12 1.58
Mixed Race 7 0.92
Asian/Pacific 5 0.66
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 PETTINGILL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of PETTINGILL in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETTINGILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTINGILL.

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 PETTINGILL

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