Pettis
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɛˌtɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pettis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Dorset. see Pitts .
- USUnited States1 in 45K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 67K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Dorset. see Pitts .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pettis 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Pettis | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Pettis | 1 |
| US United States | — | 7,354 | 1 in 45K | 7.4K | Pettis | 354 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 119 | Pettis | 53 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Pettis | 48 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Pettis | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #778 | — | — | — | Pettis | 1 |
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). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Spencer Darwin Pettisb. 1802USAmerican politician (1802–1831)
- Jerry Pettisb. 1916USAmerican politician (1916-1975)
- Shirley Neil Pettisb. 1924USAmerican politician (1924–2016)
- Gary Pettisb. 1958USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Bridget Pettisb. 1971USAmerican basketball player, guard
- Anthony Pettisb. 1987USAmerican mixed martial arts fighter
- Kyler Pettisb. 1992USAmerican actor
- Sergio Pettisb. 1993USAmerican martial artist
- Dante Pettisb. 1995USAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Madison Pettisb. 1998USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.4K | #4,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7K | #4,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7K | #4,908 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 119 | #29,692 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pettis mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Dorset. see Pitts . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Pettis?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛˌtɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pettis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Pettis in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pettis.
- How common is the name Pettis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,354 people named Pettis in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Pettis compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Pettis is the 778th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pettisThe 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 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, “Pettis” — the 778th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.