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The PEWITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,341 18857 0 5
United States (1880 census) 105 30404 0 2
Change since 1880 +1236 +11547 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 1 36600 0 0
Top States for PEWITT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 580 1776 0.010 102
Texas 171 11785 0.001 8
California 82 32229 0.000 2
Missouri 67 12054 0.001 12
Oklahoma 56 8395 0.002 16
Top States for PEWITT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 580 1776 0.010 102
Montana 32 5347 0.004 35
Oklahoma 56 8395 0.002 16
Missouri 67 12054 0.001 12
Alabama 43 9260 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of PEWITT

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

Ethnic distribution of PEWITT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 98 7.31
Mixed Race 29 2.16
White (Hispanic) 29 2.16
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.67
Asian/Pacific 6 0.45
White (Caucasian) 1,170 87.25

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

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

Meaning of PEWITT in historical publications

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

Similar names to PEWITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEWITT.

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 PEWITT

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