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The GILLETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,076 6209 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 4,195 1472 0.008 84
Change since 1880 +881 -4737 -0.006 -65
Other Countries
Australia 1,552 1056 0.009 95
United Kingdom 4,060 1546 0.009 88
Top States for GILLETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 675 4419 0.002 20
Michigan 520 2225 0.005 52
Florida 321 6268 0.002 20
Texas 316 6307 0.002 15
New York 272 7287 0.001 14
Top States for GILLETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 62 943 0.013 126
Utah 147 2056 0.007 66
Michigan 520 2225 0.005 52
Oregon 159 2814 0.005 46
Idaho 58 3258 0.004 45

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

Classification and Origin of GILLETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 356 7.01
White (Hispanic) 135 2.66
Mixed Race 115 2.27
Asian/Pacific 33 0.65
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.41
White (Caucasian) 4,416 87

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

Meaning of GILLETT in historical publications

From Guillot, the French diminutive for William. The family may have come with William the Conqueror into England, from Gillette, a town in Piedmont, France. Gillette, the son of Giles.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


GILLETT. See Gillet. GILLETT. "In England there are numerous families who write their name Gillett and Gillot, all of French extraction ; the former at Glastonbury, Exeter, aud Banbury ; the latter at Birmingham aud Sheffield. It is probable tliat these names, as well as Jellett and Guillot, have all been originally the same, namely Gillot, the diminutive of Gilles, the French form of Giles." Ulster Journal of Archseology — SBcl duVifo.

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 GILLETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLETT.

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 GILLETT

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