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The GANT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,268 2490 0.005 49
United States (1880 census) 3,637 1687 0.007 73
Change since 1880 +9631 -803 -0.002 -24
Other Countries
Australia 242 6358 0.001 15
United Kingdom 1,478 3805 0.003 32
Top States for GANT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,129 2298 0.005 54
Florida 949 2370 0.006 59
California 822 3970 0.002 24
Tennessee 725 1343 0.013 127
Illinois 665 2123 0.005 54
Top States for GANT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 637 1254 0.014 143
Tennessee 725 1343 0.013 127
Washington DC 71 972 0.012 124
Louisiana 541 1285 0.012 121
Mississippi 342 1360 0.012 120

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

Classification and Origin of GANT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GANT 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 GANT 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 GANT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 310 2.34
White (Hispanic) 175 1.32
Native American/Alaskan 72 0.54
Asian/Pacific 42 0.32
Black/African American 6,407 48.29
White (Caucasian) 6,261 47.19

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

Meaning of GANT in historical publications

GANT. See Gaunt. Le Gaut and De Gant. H.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GANT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GANT.

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 GANT

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