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    The surname Pettway

    A surname, carried by 4,807 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P300

    Pettway: #6,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pettway #6,976, 4,807 people Pettway: #6,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pettway #6,976, 4,807 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pettway is more common than 95.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,807 people named Pettway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,228 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,480.

    #6,976
    rank among US surnames
    4,807
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.3%
    change since 2000 (was #6,905)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,971Dones4,81364,148
    #6,973McComas4,81264,162
    #6,974Sand4,81064,188
    #6,976Pettway4,80764,228
    #6,977Hileman4,80664,242

    Who is named Pettway

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

    87% of people named Pettway identified as Black (not Hispanic), 8.2% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 87%
    • White (not Hispanic) 8.2%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pettway

    Pettway 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 Pettway?
    4,807 people in the United States had the surname Pettway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,228 Americans. It ranked 6,976th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pettway?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Pettway identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 8.2% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pettway getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,480 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,807 in 2010, up 7.3%.