The PUTNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,027	9850	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	1,349	4212	0.003	27
Change since 1880	+1678	-5638	-0.002	-16
Other Countries
Australia	26	42358	0	2
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PUTNEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	370	5302	0.002	19
Michigan	213	5748	0.002	21
California	203	12496	0.001	6
Iowa	173	2252	0.006	59
Florida	169	10883	0.001	11
Top States for PUTNEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	84	2301	0.007	68
Vermont	40	2628	0.007	66
Iowa	173	2252	0.006	59
Alaska	17	5663	0.003	27
Maine	30	5496	0.002	24

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PUTNEY

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

Ethnic distribution of PUTNEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	209	6.9
White (Hispanic)	45	1.49
Asian/Pacific	24	0.79
Mixed Race	24	0.79
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.33
White (Caucasian)	2,715	89.69

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

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

Similar names to PUTNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PUTNEY.

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.