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    The surname Pettry

    A surname, carried by 1,450 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P360

    Pettry: #18,858 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pettry #18,858, 1,450 people Pettry: #18,858 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pettry #18,858, 1,450 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pettry is more common than 88.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,450 people named Pettry in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 212,928 Americans. That is down 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,499.

    #18,858
    rank among US surnames
    1,450
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.3%
    change since 2000 (was #17,370)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,849Berber1,451212,781
    #18,858Zagorski1,450212,928
    #18,867Balistreri1,449213,075

    Who is named Pettry

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

    94% of people named Pettry identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • 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 Pettry

    Pettry has the Soundex code P360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P360.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pettry?
    1,450 people in the United States had the surname Pettry in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,928 Americans. It ranked 18,858th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pettry?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Pettry identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Pettry getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,499 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,450 in 2010, down 3.3%.