Petry

At the 2020 census, 5,320 Americans bore the surname Petry — 6,172nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,320
Rank: 6,172nd
How common: 1 in 56,200
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

English surname, first attested as Medieval Latin Petrus (“Peter”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.1%
Black, not Hispanic 6.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Petry

Frauke Petry (born 1975)German politician
Jeff Petry (born 1987)American ice hockey player
Zsolt Petry (born 1966)football player
Wolfgang Petry (born 1951)German pop singer and songwriter

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

Surnames like Petry

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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.