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The GAITAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,827 5490 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1 111942 0 0
Change since 1880 +5826 +106452 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 27 41228 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GAITAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,660 1883 0.008 80
California 1,493 2718 0.004 44
Florida 725 3670 0.005 45
Arizona 212 3612 0.004 41
Illinois 173 9815 0.001 14
Top States for GAITAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,660 1883 0.008 80
Florida 725 3670 0.005 45
California 1,493 2718 0.004 44
Arizona 212 3612 0.004 41
Nevada 78 3899 0.004 39

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GAITAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GAITAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GAITAN in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GAITAN by picking someone at random in Texas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GAITAN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GAITAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GAITAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GAITAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 425 7.29
Black/African American 49 0.84
Asian/Pacific 37 0.63
Mixed Race 24 0.41
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.27
White (Hispanic) 5,276 90.54

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GAITAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GAITAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GAITAN.

Similar names to GAITAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAITAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GAITAN

The following words are slight variants of GAITAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.