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The GILLISS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 271 67936 0 1
United States (1880 census) 123 27427 0 2
Change since 1880 +148 -40509 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GILLISS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 52 10721 0.001 10
Oklahoma 26 13130 0.001 8
Massachusetts 25 29228 0.000 4
California 24 84007 0.000 1
Arizona 19 26863 0.000 4
Top States for GILLISS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 13 8482 0.002 20
Maryland 52 10721 0.001 10
Delaware 7 17574 0.001 9
Oklahoma 26 13130 0.001 8
Montana 5 25431 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of GILLISS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GILLISS surname.

Ethnic distribution of GILLISS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 263 97.05
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

GILLISS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GILLISS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILLISS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLISS.

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 GILLISS

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