Pettit

Pettit is the 1,930th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,281 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,400.

By the numbers

People: 18,281
Rank: 1,930th
How common: 1 in 16,400
Per 100,000: 6.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Pettit

Bob Pettit (born 1932)American basketball player and coach
Donald Pettit (born 1955)American astronaut
Philip Pettit (born 1945)Irish philosopher and political theorist
Edison Pettit (1889–1962)American astronomer

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

Surnames like Pettit

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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.