How common is the surname Petz?

1,318 people in the United States had the surname Petz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,253 Americans. It ranked 20,216th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Petz?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Petz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Petz getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,322 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,318 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Petz

A surname, carried by 1,318 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Petz is more common than 87.5% of them.

Origin

* As an East Central German surname, from a pet form of Peter. * As a Polish, Slovene and Czech surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pec, itself related to Peter.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,318 people named Petz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,253 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,322.

#20,216

rank among US surnames

1,318

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #19,048)

Who is named Petz

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

93% of people named Petz identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Petz

Petz has the Soundex code P320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P320.

Questions

Where does the surname Petz come from?: * As an East Central German surname, from a pet form of Peter. * As a Polish, Slovene and Czech surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pec, itself related to Peter.
How common is the surname Petz?: 1,318 people in the United States had the surname Petz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,253 Americans. It ranked 20,216th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Petz?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Petz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Petz getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,322 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,318 in 2010, down 0.3%.