The Petter surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 654 people carried this name — #33,020 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 416,700 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
239 people named Petter live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 71 people named Petter.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Moselle.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Petter.
- Petrucci 2,990 · U.S. census
- Petrus 1,714 · U.S. census
- Petruzzi 1,074 · U.S. census
- Petry 5,300 · U.S. census
- Pett 1,042 · U.S. census
- Pette 115 · U.S. census
- Pettes 251 · U.S. census
- Petton 100 · U.S. census
- Peyron 199 · U.S. census
- Peyrot 118 · U.S. census
- Pfaff 6,282 · U.S. census
- Pfalzgraf 474 · U.S. census
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