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The PETTREY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 307 61207 0 1
United States (1880 census) 11 85858 0 0
Change since 1880 +296 +24651 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 8 101048 0 0
United Kingdom 3 34354 0 0
Top States for PETTREY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 116 2225 0.006 64
Ohio 45 28627 0.000 4
Florida 39 41401 0.000 2
Virginia 30 19594 0.000 4
Kentucky 19 15160 0.000 5
Top States for PETTREY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 116 2225 0.006 64
Kentucky 19 15160 0.000 5
Virginia 30 19594 0.000 4
Wyoming 2 26717 0.000 4
Ohio 45 28627 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of PETTREY

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

Ethnic distribution of PETTREY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 304 99.02
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of PETTREY in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETTREY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTREY.

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 PETTREY

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