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The GATWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 358 54020 0 1
United States (1880 census) 65 42814 0 1
Change since 1880 +293 -11206 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 19 53551 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GATWOOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 76 3909 0.003 27
Ohio 68 18429 0.001 6
Alabama 46 7836 0.001 10
Florida 31 46081 0.000 2
Oklahoma 24 13627 0.001 7
Top States for GATWOOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 76 3909 0.003 27
Alabama 46 7836 0.001 10
Oklahoma 24 13627 0.001 7
Ohio 68 18429 0.001 6
Indiana 16 31487 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of GATWOOD

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GATWOOD surname.

Ethnic distribution of GATWOOD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 333 93.02
Black/African American 9 2.51
Native American/Alaskan 7 1.96
Mixed Race 5 1.4
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

GATWOOD is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GATWOOD in historical publications

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

Similar names to GATWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GATWOOD.

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 GATWOOD

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