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    The surname Pitre

    A surname, carried by 6,637 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P360

    Pitre: #5,257 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pitre #5,257, 6,637 people Pitre: #5,257 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pitre #5,257, 6,637 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pitre is more common than 96.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,637 people named Pitre in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 46,519 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,119.

    #5,257
    rank among US surnames
    6,637
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.5%
    change since 2000 (was #5,240)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,251Bordelon6,64446,470
    #5,253Batiste6,64046,498
    #5,255Kiley6,63946,505
    #5,257Pitre6,63746,519
    #5,258Nazario6,63646,526
    #5,259Huebner6,63546,533

    Who is named Pitre

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

    66% of people named Pitre identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 10% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pitre

    Pitre 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 Pitre?
    6,637 people in the United States had the surname Pitre in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 46,519 Americans. It ranked 5,257th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pitre?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Pitre identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pitre getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,119 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,637 in 2010, up 8.5%.