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The PITCHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,042 5306 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 2,449 2490 0.005 49
Change since 1880 +3593 -2816 -0.003 -27
Other Countries
Australia 801 2022 0.005 49
United Kingdom 2,967 2086 0.006 65
Top States for PITCHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 732 2639 0.004 39
California 462 6152 0.001 14
Michigan 435 2690 0.004 44
Utah 385 786 0.017 172
Florida 301 6604 0.002 19
Top States for PITCHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 385 786 0.017 172
Maine 116 1993 0.009 91
Alaska 56 1451 0.009 89
Idaho 99 1878 0.008 77
Montana 43 3023 0.005 48

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

Classification and Origin of PITCHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PITCHER 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 PITCHER 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 PITCHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 229 3.79
Mixed Race 99 1.64
White (Hispanic) 77 1.27
Asian/Pacific 39 0.65
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.4
White (Caucasian) 5,574 92.25

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

Meaning of PITCHER in historical publications

PITCHER. 1. Some kind of employment—perhaps that of 'pitching,' i.e., roughly pavhig with boulders ; or of applying pitch to ships, &c. 2. An inn sign. 3. " The man who lifts or pitches the reaped corn or hay up into the wagon." Halliwell. A person who excelled in this kind of work would readily acquire the surname.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PITCHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PITCHER.

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 PITCHER

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