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 carried by more people in England than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Rittey? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,798,600th most widely held last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 269,909,108 people. The surname Rittey is primarily found in Europe, where 48 percent of Rittey live; 44 percent live in Australasia and 44 percent live in Australia and New Zealand.
The surname Rittey is most frequently held in England, where it is carried by 11 people, or 1 in 5,065,278. In England Rittey is mostly found in: Somerset, where 82 percent live, Hampshire, where 9 percent live and Greater London, where 9 percent live. Without taking into account England this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 22 percent live and New Zealand, where 22 percent live.
Rittey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Rittey has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Rittey surname rose 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Rittey
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