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The GLEESON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,855 10336 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 1,240 4553 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +1615 -5783 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 4,362 334 0.027 267
United Kingdom 2,452 2496 0.005 53
Top States for GLEESON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 316 8024 0.001 9
New York 294 6192 0.002 15
Illinois 265 4631 0.002 21
New Jersey 174 5245 0.002 21
Pennsylvania 170 8342 0.001 14
Top States for GLEESON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 25 5109 0.003 32
Connecticut 81 5342 0.002 24
New Hampshire 27 5535 0.002 22
Illinois 265 4631 0.002 21
New Jersey 174 5245 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of GLEESON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 48 1.68
White (Hispanic) 44 1.54
Black/African American 38 1.33
Asian/Pacific 12 0.42
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.21
White (Caucasian) 2,707 94.82

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

Meaning of GLEESON in historical publications

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

Similar names to GLEESON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GLEESON.

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 GLEESON

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