The GILLILAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,170	2517	0.005	49
United States (1880 census)	2,627	2326	0.005	53
Change since 1880	+10543	-191	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	368	4305	0.002	23
United Kingdom	1,189	4563	0.003	26

Top States for GILLILAND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,475	483	0.033	332
Texas	1,052	2245	0.005	50
Ohio	890	1500	0.008	78
California	786	3788	0.002	23
Tennessee	649	1358	0.011	114
Top States for GILLILAND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,475	483	0.033	332
Kansas	408	661	0.015	152
Oklahoma	463	1016	0.013	134
Tennessee	649	1358	0.011	114
Nebraska	140	1422	0.008	82

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

Classification and Origin of GILLILAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	192	1.46
Mixed Race	180	1.37
Black/African American	140	1.06
Native American/Alaskan	74	0.56
Asian/Pacific	61	0.46
White (Caucasian)	12,523	95.09

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

Similar names to GILLILAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLILAND.

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.