Pelletier

Pelletier is the 2,098th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,759 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 17,800.

By the numbers

People: 16,759
Rank: 2,098th
How common: 1 in 17,800
Per 100,000: 5.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pelletier described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Pelletier

Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788–1842)French chemist
Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939)French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor
Bruno Pelletier (born 1962)Canadian singer
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier (1796–1868)19th‑century French nun and foundress of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
David Pelletier (born 1974)Canadian pair skater
Bronson Pelletier (born 1986)Canadian actor
Nicolas Jacques Pelletier (1800–1792)French highwayman
Marie-Ève Pelletier (born 1982)Canadian tennis player

People named Pelletier with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pelletier

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.