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The GILLISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 975 24135 0 4
United States (1880 census) 211 18546 0 4
Change since 1880 +764 -5589 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 10 88839 0 1
United Kingdom 104 23503 0 2
Top States for GILLISON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 102 9994 0.001 14
South Carolina 75 7588 0.002 19
Michigan 71 26557 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 62 33457 0.001 5
Illinois 61 32697 0.000 5
Top States for GILLISON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 75 7588 0.002 19
Montana 16 13400 0.002 18
Virginia 102 9994 0.001 14
Maryland 54 15155 0.001 10
Washington DC 5 15531 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of GILLISON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 475 48.72
White (Caucasian) 446 45.74
Mixed Race 25 2.56
White (Hispanic) 17 1.74
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GILLISON in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILLISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLISON.

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 GILLISON

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