Petri

At the 2020 census, 2,822 Americans bore the surname Petri — 10,801st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 106,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,822
Rank: 10,801st
How common: 1 in 106,000
Per 100,000: 0.94

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Petri

Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921)German microbiologist
Elio Petri (1929–1982)Italian filmmaker
Olaus Petri (1493–1552)clergyman, writer, judge and major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden
Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010)German mathematician
Michala Petri (born 1958)Danish recorder player
Laurentius Petri (1499–1573)Swedish clergyman
Egon Petri (1881–1962)Dutch musician
Heather Petri (born 1978)American water polo player and coach

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

Surnames like Petri

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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.