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    The surname Pettengill

    A surname, carried by 2,195 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex P352

    Pettengill: #13,781 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pettengill #13,781, 2,195 people Pettengill: #13,781 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pettengill #13,781, 2,195 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pettengill is more common than 91.5% of them.

    Origin

    Ethnic surname for someone from Portugal, from an altered form of Middle English Portyngale (“Portugal”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,195 people named Pettengill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 140,659 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,961.

    #13,781
    rank among US surnames
    2,195
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.9%
    change since 2000 (was #14,084)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,775Balke2,196140,595
    #13,781Pettengill2,195140,659
    #13,786Schuessler2,194140,723
    #13,790Cuddy2,193140,787

    Who is named Pettengill

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

    93% of people named Pettengill identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    • Pettingill

    Pettengill has the Soundex code P352, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P352.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pettengill come from?
    Ethnic surname for someone from Portugal, from an altered form of Middle English Portyngale (“Portugal”).
    How common is the surname Pettengill?
    2,195 people in the United States had the surname Pettengill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,659 Americans. It ranked 13,781st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pettengill?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Pettengill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Pettengill getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,961 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,195 in 2010, up 12%.
    What are other spellings of Pettengill?
    Pettingill.