The PETTIT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,653	1761	0.007	69
United States (1880 census)	4,508	1379	0.009	90
Change since 1880	+14145	-382	-0.002	-21
Other Countries
Australia	1,149	1435	0.007	70
United Kingdom	2,623	2355	0.006	57

Top States for PETTIT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,414	2207	0.004	42
Texas	1,320	1809	0.006	63
New York	1,078	1667	0.006	57
Ohio	1,040	1270	0.009	92
Florida	979	2061	0.006	61
Top States for PETTIT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	251	1072	0.014	139
Iowa	401	776	0.014	137
South Carolina	520	1270	0.013	130
Utah	280	1059	0.013	125
Washington	729	964	0.012	124

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

Classification and Origin of PETTIT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	558	2.99
White (Hispanic)	270	1.45
Mixed Race	269	1.44
Native American/Alaskan	211	1.13
Asian/Pacific	95	0.51
White (Caucasian)	17,250	92.48

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

Similar names to PETTIT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETTIT.

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.