The PETTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	34,278	933	0.013	127
United States (1880 census)	7,551	793	0.015	151
Change since 1880	+26727	-140	-0.002	-24
Other Countries
Australia	712	2273	0.004	44
United Kingdom	2,719	2287	0.006	59

Top States for PETTY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	4,409	584	0.021	211
Tennessee	2,577	344	0.045	453
California	2,234	1537	0.007	66
Florida	1,586	1362	0.010	99
North Carolina	1,546	783	0.019	192
Top States for PETTY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	2,577	344	0.045	453
Alabama	1,156	689	0.026	260
Mississippi	728	629	0.026	256
Arkansas	659	553	0.025	247
Missouri	1,292	513	0.023	231

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

Classification and Origin of PETTY

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 PETTY 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 PETTY 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 PETTY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	535	1.56
White (Hispanic)	500	1.46
Native American/Alaskan	192	0.56
Asian/Pacific	113	0.33
White (Caucasian)	25,976	75.78
Black/African American	6,965	20.32

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

Similar names to PETTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTY.

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.