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The GATE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 163 102173 0 1
United States (1880 census) 242 16753 0 5
Change since 1880 -79 -85420 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 64 20883 0 4
United Kingdom 450 9549 0.001 10
Top States for GATE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 15 112800 0.000 1
California 13 252035 0.000 0
Florida 10 222456 0.000 1
Georgia 10 77122 0.000 1
New York 10 232697 0.000 1
Top States for GATE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Colorado 8 101864 0.000 2
South Carolina 5 79732 0.000 1
North Carolina 10 76134 0.000 1
Georgia 10 77122 0.000 1
Virginia 8 113730 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of GATE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 101 61.96
Black/African American 41 25.15
White (Hispanic) 11 6.75
Asian/Pacific 6 3.68
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GATE in historical publications

GATE. From residence near either the gate of a fortified town, or of a chase, forest, or the like. Its medieval forms are Ate Gate and Atte Gate, which have since the XV. cent, modified to Agate, Gater, and especially to Gates, now one of the commonest of surnames. In North Britain (jatc is equivalent to way ; as in the phrase, "Gang your Gate" for "Go your way." See also Northgate, Southgate, &c. De la Gate, de Gate, and Le Gater, occur in the 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 GATE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GATE.

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 GATE

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