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The GILLIAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,406 11917 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 545 9003 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1861 -2914 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 61 21629 0 4
United Kingdom 211 15908 0 5
Top States for GILLIAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 267 3281 0.007 67
Ohio 202 10407 0.002 18
California 165 22365 0.000 5
Texas 154 15884 0.001 7
New York 126 23204 0.001 7
Top States for GILLIAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 267 3281 0.007 67
West Virginia 80 3788 0.004 44
Alaska 20 7806 0.003 32
Alabama 122 5723 0.003 27
Maine 28 8215 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of GILLIAN

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 GILLIAN 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 GILLIAN 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 GILLIAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 674 28.01
White (Hispanic) 45 1.87
Mixed Race 41 1.7
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.79
Asian/Pacific 11 0.46
White (Caucasian) 1,616 67.17

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

Meaning of GILLIAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILLIAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLIAN.

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 GILLIAN

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