Pettigrew

At the 2020 census, 7,461 Americans bore the surname Pettigrew — 4,613th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,100.

By the numbers

People: 7,461
Rank: 4,613th
How common: 1 in 40,100
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Unknown, although possibly from the French phrase "petit cru" (small growth) from Anglo-Norman French "petit creu", thus as a nickname for a small/short man. Other interpretations include from the French phrase "pie de grue" (crane's foot), i.e., someone with long legs (cf. Attested from the 13th century as an English surname.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 57.3%
Black, not Hispanic 31.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Pettigrew

Antonio Pettigrew (1967–2010)American sprint athlete
J. Johnston Pettigrew (1828–1863)American general
Richard F. Pettigrew (1848–1926)American politician

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

Surnames like Pettigrew

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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.