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The GETTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,872 10282 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 1,116 4981 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +1756 -5301 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 12 78450 0 1
United Kingdom 638 7427 0.001 14
Top States for GETTY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 517 3103 0.004 42
California 267 10166 0.001 8
New York 180 11067 0.001 9
Illinois 166 8255 0.001 13
Washington 129 5923 0.002 22
Top States for GETTY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 38 2800 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 517 3103 0.004 42
South Dakota 28 5004 0.004 37
Delaware 28 5106 0.004 36
New Hampshire 28 5943 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of GETTY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 56 1.95
Black/African American 48 1.67
Asian/Pacific 33 1.15
Mixed Race 25 0.87
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.63
White (Caucasian) 2,692 93.73

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

Meaning of GETTY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GETTY.

Similar names to GETTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GETTY.

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 GETTY

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