Petty

At the 2020 census, 33,510 Americans bore the surname Petty — 1,028th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,920.

By the numbers

People: 33,510
Rank: 1,028th
How common: 1 in 8,920
Per 100,000: 11.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.3%
Black, not Hispanic 20.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Petty

Tom Petty (1950–2017)American musician
William Petty (1623–1687)English scientist, philosopher, statistician and economist
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737–1805)British Prime Minister
Richard Petty (born 1937)American racing driver
Lori Petty (born 1963)American actress
Norman Petty (1927–1984)American musician and record producer, talent manager
Lee Petty (1914–2000)American racecar driver
Rhonda Jo Petty (born 1955)American pornographic actress

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

Surnames like Petty

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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.