Find out how popular the last name Pietras is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Pietras.

Pietras, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Pietras surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Pietras in America

Pietras is the 21009th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Pietras surname appeared 1,252 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Pietras.

We can also compare 2010 data for Pietras to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Pietras

The surname Pietras is of Polish origin, derived from the personal name Piotr, which is the Polish form of Peter. The name Piotr itself is derived from the Greek word "petros," meaning "rock" or "stone." It is believed that the surname Pietras emerged in the 12th or 13th century in the regions of Greater Poland and Silesia.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the surname Pietras can be found in the Liber Beneficiorum, a 14th-century record of benefices in the Archdiocese of Gniezno, where a certain Jakub Pietras is mentioned as a resident of the village of Gorzewo in Greater Poland.

During the Middle Ages, the name Pietras was particularly prevalent in the areas around the city of Poznań, where it was often associated with the local nobility and landowners. In the 16th century, a notable figure named Andrzej Pietras was a prominent merchant and burgher in the city of Poznań.

In the 17th century, the Pietras family played a significant role in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Jan Pietras, born in 1612, was a distinguished military commander who fought in the Polish-Swedish wars. His son, Maciej Pietras (1645-1711), was a renowned philosopher and scholar who taught at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Another prominent individual with the surname Pietras was Franciszek Pietras (1770-1842), a Polish painter and engraver who studied in Rome and worked in the neoclassical style. His works can be found in various churches and museums across Poland.

In the 19th century, Józef Pietras (1828-1901) was a notable Polish politician and activist who played a significant role in the January Uprising against the Russian Empire. He later served as a member of the Prussian parliament, representing the Polish minority in the region of Silesia.

Throughout its history, the surname Pietras has been associated with various towns and villages in Poland, such as Pietrasówka, Pietraszkówka, and Pietraszkówek, which likely derived their names from early settlers bearing the Pietras surname.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Pietras

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Pietras.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Pietras was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Pietras has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Pietras was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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