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    The surname Pettaway

    A surname, carried by 3,157 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex P300

    Pettaway: #10,204 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pettaway #10,204, 3,157 people Pettaway: #10,204 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pettaway #10,204, 3,157 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pettaway is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,157 people named Pettaway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,797 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,500.

    #10,204
    rank among US surnames
    3,157
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +26.3%
    change since 2000 (was #11,536)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,197Garr3,16097,704
    #10,199Swint3,15997,735
    #10,200Hunsinger3,15897,766
    #10,204Thakkar3,15797,797
    #10,211Broadus3,15697,828

    Who is named Pettaway

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    86% of people named Pettaway identified as Black (not Hispanic), 6.8% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.8% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 86%
    • White (not Hispanic) 6.8%
    • Two or more races 3.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pettaway

    Pettaway has the Soundex code P300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pettaway?
    3,157 people in the United States had the surname Pettaway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,797 Americans. It ranked 10,204th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pettaway?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Pettaway identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 6.8% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pettaway getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,500 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,157 in 2010, up 26%.