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The PITTS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 48,462 639 0.018 180
United States (1880 census) 9,566 630 0.019 191
Change since 1880 +38896 -9 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 886 1852 0.005 54
United Kingdom 3,382 1847 0.007 74
Top States for PITTS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 4,449 215 0.054 543
Texas 3,678 727 0.018 176
Florida 3,662 538 0.023 229
Alabama 2,923 235 0.066 657
California 2,802 1225 0.008 83
Top States for PITTS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 2,923 235 0.066 657
Mississippi 1,725 238 0.061 606
Georgia 4,449 215 0.054 543
South Carolina 2,029 297 0.051 506
Arkansas 1,028 333 0.038 385

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

Classification and Origin of PITTS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 780 1.61
White (Hispanic) 678 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 252 0.52
Asian/Pacific 150 0.31
White (Caucasian) 31,941 65.91
Black/African American 14,665 30.26

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

Meaning of PITTS in historical publications

PITTS. See Pitt.

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 PITTS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PITTS.

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 PITTS

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