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The PITTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 795 28298 0 3
United States (1880 census) 18 75533 0 0
Change since 1880 +777 +47235 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 38 31498 0 2
United Kingdom 292 12963 0.001 6
Top States for PITTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 214 10242 0.001 11
Florida 181 11440 0.001 11
California 63 38824 0.000 2
Massachusetts 45 18975 0.001 7
New Jersey 45 24965 0.001 5
Top States for PITTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 181 11440 0.001 11
New York 214 10242 0.001 11
Connecticut 34 15675 0.001 10
Massachusetts 45 18975 0.001 7
Maryland 30 19336 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of PITTER

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 PITTER 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 PITTER 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 PITTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 475 59.75
White (Caucasian) 245 30.82
White (Hispanic) 34 4.28
Mixed Race 32 4.03
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PITTER in historical publications

PITTER. See Pitt, and the term. ek.

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 PITTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PITTER.

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 PITTER

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