Rittey Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Rittey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| New Zealand | 6 | 1:754,720 | 41,661 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 8 | 1:3,046,921 | 80,371 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Rittey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rittey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Rittey is held by more people in England than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Rittey? popularity and diffusion
Rittey is the 3,798,600th most frequent last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 269,909,108 people. The last name is primarily found in Europe, where 48 percent of Rittey are found; 44 percent are found in Australasia and 44 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand.
The surname is most frequently used in England, where it is carried by 11 people, or 1 in 5,065,278. In England Rittey is mostly concentrated in: Somerset, where 82 percent live, Hampshire, where 9 percent live and Greater London, where 9 percent live. Beside England this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 22 percent live and New Zealand, where 22 percent live.
Rittey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Rittey has changed over time. In England the number of people who held the Rittey last name expanded 138 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it contracted 80 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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