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The GASKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,754 4779 0.002 25
United States (1880 census) 876 6094 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +5878 +1315 0 +7
Other Countries
Australia 453 3517 0.003 28
United Kingdom 2,163 2762 0.005 47
Top States for GASKIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 841 2632 0.005 53
New York 538 3860 0.003 28
Georgia 496 2187 0.006 61
Texas 449 4972 0.002 22
California 416 7068 0.001 12
Top States for GASKIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 269 1628 0.009 95
South Carolina 340 2007 0.008 85
Alabama 366 2007 0.008 82
Washington DC 42 1543 0.007 73
Georgia 496 2187 0.006 61

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

Classification and Origin of GASKIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 158 2.34
White (Hispanic) 155 2.29
Asian/Pacific 30 0.44
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.27
Black/African American 3,039 45
White (Caucasian) 3,354 49.66

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

Meaning of GASKIN in historical publications

GASKIN. GASKOIN. See Gascoiane.

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 GASKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GASKIN.

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 GASKIN

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