The GILLIES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,712	10797	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	374	12100	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+2338	+1303	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	1,789	910	0.011	109
United Kingdom	5,022	1251	0.011	109

Top States for GILLIES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	355	7424	0.001	10
Michigan	273	4249	0.003	27
Florida	158	11139	0.001	10
New York	157	11732	0.001	8
Utah	136	2091	0.006	61
Top States for GILLIES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	136	2091	0.006	61
Vermont	25	3783	0.004	41
Maine	38	4440	0.003	30
Michigan	273	4249	0.003	27
South Dakota	19	6778	0.003	25

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

Classification and Origin of GILLIES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	100	3.69
White (Hispanic)	52	1.92
Mixed Race	45	1.66
Asian/Pacific	34	1.25
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.29
White (Caucasian)	2,473	91.19

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

Similar names to GILLIES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLIES.

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.