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The GILLON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,324 19028 0 5
United States (1880 census) 524 9300 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +800 -9728 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 251 6135 0.002 15
United Kingdom 1,242 4380 0.003 27
Top States for GILLON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 87 28296 0.000 3
New York 85 23826 0.000 4
North Carolina 85 8449 0.001 11
Tennessee 85 7105 0.001 15
Michigan 84 16637 0.001 8
Top States for GILLON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 76 4229 0.003 27
Tennessee 85 7105 0.001 15
Kentucky 54 7387 0.001 13
Connecticut 40 12856 0.001 12
North Carolina 85 8449 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of GILLON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 829 62.61
Black/African American 404 30.51
White (Hispanic) 39 2.95
Mixed Race 31 2.34
Asian/Pacific 14 1.06
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.53

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

Meaning of GILLON in historical publications

GILLON. The Gillons of Linlithgowshire consider themselves of Norman origin, but some derive the name from the clan Gille-eon.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GILLON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLON.

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 GILLON

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