The GILBERT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	112,406	243	0.042	417
United States (1880 census)	28,862	174	0.058	577
Change since 1880	+83544	-69	-0.016	-160
Other Countries
Australia	5,540	251	0.034	339
United Kingdom	22,401	241	0.049	488

Top States for GILBERT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	8,144	387	0.024	240
Texas	7,990	298	0.038	383
Florida	7,399	227	0.046	463
New York	5,423	272	0.029	286
Pennsylvania	5,076	201	0.041	413
Top States for GILBERT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,555	96	0.122	1,220
Delaware	678	129	0.087	865
Vermont	490	109	0.080	805
New Hampshire	977	107	0.079	791
Alabama	3,240	188	0.073	729

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GILBERT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	776	0.69
Asian/Pacific	472	0.42
White (Caucasian)	90,273	80.31
Black/African American	16,838	14.98
White (Hispanic)	2,372	2.11
Mixed Race	1,675	1.49

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

Similar names to GILBERT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILBERT.

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.