The GILLS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,955	14122	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	496	9743	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+1459	-4379	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	87	15997	0.001	5
United Kingdom	189	17040	0	4

Top States for GILLS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	227	4248	0.003	32
Illinois	171	8993	0.001	14
Florida	148	13922	0.001	9
Texas	126	14558	0.001	6
Louisiana	86	6741	0.002	19
Top States for GILLS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	227	4248	0.003	32
Arkansas	77	4540	0.003	29
West Virginia	50	4192	0.003	28
Alaska	15	7807	0.002	24
Oklahoma	71	6763	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of GILLS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	772	39.49
White (Hispanic)	48	2.46
Mixed Race	35	1.79
Asian/Pacific	10	0.51
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.31
White (Caucasian)	1,084	55.45

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

Similar names to GILLS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLS.

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.