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The GILDER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,751 15384 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 467 10220 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1284 -5164 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 198 7631 0.001 12
United Kingdom 1,190 4559 0.003 26
Top States for GILDER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 440 4900 0.002 21
Alabama 129 4179 0.003 29
Georgia 128 5919 0.002 16
California 124 19520 0.000 4
Florida 80 21178 0.001 5
Top States for GILDER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 32 4375 0.004 35
Alabama 129 4179 0.003 29
Mississippi 80 3864 0.003 28
Texas 440 4900 0.002 21
Georgia 128 5919 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of GILDER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 580 33.12
White (Hispanic) 37 2.11
Mixed Race 26 1.48
Asian/Pacific 14 0.8
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.51
White (Caucasian) 1,085 61.96

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

Meaning of GILDER in historical publications

GILDER. The occupation.

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 GILDER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILDER.

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 GILDER

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