The surname Pettitt
A surname, carried by 1,848 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 1,848 people named Pettitt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 167,070 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,659.
#15,771
rank among US surnames
1,848
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+11.4%
change since 2000 (was #16,053)
Who is named Pettitt
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Pettitt identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Pettitt 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 Pettitt?
- 1,848 people in the United States had the surname Pettitt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,070 Americans. It ranked 15,771st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pettitt?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Pettitt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Pettitt getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,659 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,848 in 2010, up 11%.