How common is the last name Pettit?

18,281 people in the United States have the last name Pettit, about 1 in 16,350. It ranks #1,930 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

PETTIT

#1,930

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
18,281
About
1 in 16,350
This common or more
47.4%
Who bears it

Of the 18,281 people with the last name Pettit, 87.5% reported their origin as White, 4% as two or more races and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Pettit

#1,927 Ricks · 18,300#1,929 Nowak · 18,297#1,931 Crespo · 18,277#1,932 Story · 18,276

Spelled almost the same

3 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Pettit, most common first.

#5,409 Petit · 6,226#16,476 Pettitt · 1,693#32,173 Pettet · 768

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