The surname Petitt
A surname, carried by 2,684 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P330
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,684 people named Petitt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,032 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,404.
#11,679
rank among US surnames
2,684
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+11.6%
change since 2000 (was #11,928)
Who is named Petitt
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
85% of people named Petitt identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 85%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Petitt has the Soundex code P330, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P330.
Questions
- How common is the surname Petitt?
- 2,684 people in the United States had the surname Petitt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,032 Americans. It ranked 11,679th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Petitt?
- In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Petitt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Petitt getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,404 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,684 in 2010, up 12%.