Pëtty

Name: Pëtty: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pëtty is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The adjective is derived from Middle English peti, pety (“little, small; minor”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman petit, Middle French petit, and Old French peti, petit, pitet (“young; little, sma.

KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
SGSingapore≈1 in 8.4Kfew records
NZNew Zealand≈1 in 9.3Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: United States (measured from records)
Record sources: 456 (measured from records)
: 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Petty

Locally spelled Petty in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

Pëtty

Middle Englishpeti“little“little, small; minor”(measured from records)
Anglo-Normanpetit(measured from records)

The adjective is derived from Middle English peti, pety (“little, small; minor”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman petit, Middle French petit, and Old French peti, petit, pitet (“young; little, small; inferior; insignificant”) (modern French petit), ultimately of imitative origin. It is no longer thought that the word is derived from Celtic. Doublet of petit and petite. The noun is derived from the adjective.

Cited for this meaning 5

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Wiktionary
Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Nordic Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Pëtty counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pëtty is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	#828	34,882	1 in 9.5K	35K	Petty	456
GB United Kingdom	—	≈6,300 est.	≈1 in 11K	3.7K	Petty	183
CA Canada	—	≈3,700 est.	≈1 in 11K	—	Petty	96
AU Australia	—	≈2,200 est.	≈1 in 12K	1	Petty	114
PH Philippines	—	≈1,300 est.	≈1 in 86K	—	Petty	18
SG Singapore	#797	≈720 est.	≈1 in 8.4K	—	Petty	11
NZ New Zealand	—	≈570 est.	≈1 in 9.3K	—	Petty	37
KN St. Kitts & Nevis	—	16	1 in 3.4K	16	—	4

34,882 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

Pëtty is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish surname10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Also written Petty, Pëttŷ, Pêtty, Pétty, Péttÿ
Hungarian surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom
Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian
Also written Petty
Russian surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Also written Petty, Петти, Петті

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pëtty under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pëtty mean, and where does it come from?: The adjective is derived from Middle English peti, pety (“little, small; minor”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman petit, Middle French petit, and Old French peti, petit, pitet (“young; little, sma… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
Is Pëtty a male or female name?: Pëtty is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Pëtty have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Pëtty, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petty.
Where is Pëtty most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pëtty is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pëtty?: In the United States, the national register counted 34,882 people named Pëtty in 2010, about 1 in 9.5 thousand residents.
How common is Pëtty compared with other names?: In the United States, Pëtty is the 828th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pëtty” — the 828th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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