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The PITTMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 52,689 573 0.02 195
United States (1880 census) 4,828 1292 0.01 97
Change since 1880 +47861 +719 +0.01 +98
Other Countries
Australia 480 3335 0.003 29
United Kingdom 817 6168 0.002 18
Top States for PITTMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 5,711 173 0.071 710
Georgia 4,566 211 0.056 558
Texas 4,331 605 0.021 208
Florida 3,828 519 0.024 240
Mississippi 3,198 115 0.112 1,124
Top States for PITTMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 3,198 115 0.112 1,124
North Carolina 5,711 173 0.071 710
Georgia 4,566 211 0.056 558
South Carolina 1,838 335 0.046 458
Alabama 1,747 423 0.039 393

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

Classification and Origin of PITTMAN

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 PITTMAN 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 PITTMAN 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 PITTMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 811 1.54
White (Hispanic) 638 1.21
Native American/Alaskan 321 0.61
Asian/Pacific 148 0.28
White (Caucasian) 34,959 66.35
Black/African American 15,807 30

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

Meaning of PITTMAN in historical publications

PITMAxNT. PITTMAN. See Pitt, and the termination jrAK. One Johannes Piteman is mentioned in H.R.

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 PITTMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PITTMAN.

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 PITTMAN

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