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The GANDHI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,215 7292 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) -1 116719 0 0
Change since 1880 +4216 +109427 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 39 31011 0 2
United Kingdom 1,037 5106 0.002 23
Top States for GANDHI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 791 881 0.009 94
California 668 3621 0.002 20
Illinois 588 1739 0.005 47
Texas 350 4840 0.002 17
New York 320 4864 0.002 17
Top States for GANDHI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 791 881 0.009 94
Illinois 588 1739 0.005 47
Delaware 19 5845 0.002 24
Virginia 142 4570 0.002 20
California 668 3621 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of GANDHI

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Hindi

Religious origin: Hindu

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GANDHI 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.

Ethnic distribution of GANDHI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 197 4.67
White (Caucasian) 88 2.09
White (Hispanic) 39 0.93
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.4
Black/African American 7 0.17
Asian/Pacific 3,867 91.74

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

Meaning of GANDHI in historical publications

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

Similar names to GANDHI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GANDHI.

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 GANDHI

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