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The GIDEON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,956 7744 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 858 6184 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +3098 -1560 -0.001 -2
Other Countries
Australia 18 57542 0 1
United Kingdom 75 25037 0 2
Top States for GIDEON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 642 3754 0.003 31
Missouri 344 2325 0.006 61
California 319 8936 0.001 9
Tennessee 226 3528 0.004 40
Oklahoma 184 2769 0.005 53
Top States for GIDEON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 344 2325 0.006 61
Oklahoma 184 2769 0.005 53
Wyoming 22 3191 0.004 45
Kansas 119 2982 0.004 44
Tennessee 226 3528 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of GIDEON

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

Ethnic distribution of GIDEON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 376 9.5
Mixed Race 116 2.93
Asian/Pacific 72 1.82
Native American/Alaskan 56 1.42
White (Hispanic) 52 1.31
White (Caucasian) 3,284 83.01

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

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

Meaning of GIDEON in historical publications

GIDEON. The personal name.

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 GIDEON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIDEON.

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 GIDEON

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