The PETTUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,917	6373	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	1,127	4942	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+3790	-1431	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	1	36841	0	0

Top States for PETTUS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	781	1004	0.018	176
California	305	9130	0.001	9
North Carolina	305	3485	0.004	38
Texas	302	6703	0.001	14
Virginia	297	3093	0.004	42
Top States for PETTUS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	781	1004	0.018	176
Arkansas	203	1869	0.008	76
South Carolina	214	2833	0.005	53
Washington DC	29	2183	0.005	51
Virginia	297	3093	0.004	42

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

Classification and Origin of PETTUS

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

Ethnic distribution of PETTUS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	92	1.87
White (Hispanic)	86	1.75
Asian/Pacific	24	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.31
White (Caucasian)	2,799	56.92
Black/African American	1,901	38.66

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

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

Similar names to PETTUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTUS.

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.