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The GIBB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,575 8488 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 741 7027 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +2834 -1461 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 1,202 1375 0.007 74
United Kingdom 5,609 1112 0.012 122
Top States for GIBB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 397 6924 0.001 12
Florida 233 8152 0.001 15
Washington 202 3684 0.003 34
Illinois 163 8046 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 158 9451 0.001 13
Top States for GIBB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 154 1917 0.007 69
Rhode Island 46 3431 0.004 44
North Dakota 28 4039 0.004 44
Colorado 148 3767 0.003 34
Washington 202 3684 0.003 34

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

Classification and Origin of GIBB

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 119 3.33
White (Hispanic) 51 1.43
Mixed Race 43 1.2
Asian/Pacific 33 0.92
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.22
White (Caucasian) 3,321 92.9

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

Meaning of GIBB in historical publications

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

Similar names to GIBB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIBB.

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 GIBB

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