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    The surname Pettie

    A surname, carried by 1,154 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P300

    Pettie: #22,334 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pettie #22,334, 1,154 people Pettie: #22,334 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pettie #22,334, 1,154 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pettie is more common than 86.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,154 people named Pettie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 267,544 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,113.

    #22,334
    rank among US surnames
    1,154
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #21,791)

    Who is named Pettie

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

    57% of people named Pettie identified as white (not Hispanic), 34% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 57%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 34%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Two or more races 3.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pettie

    Pettie 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 Pettie?
    1,154 people in the United States had the surname Pettie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 267,544 Americans. It ranked 22,334th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pettie?
    In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Pettie identified as white (not Hispanic), and 34% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pettie getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,113 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,154 in 2010, up 3.7%.