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The GOMEZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 263,590 68 0.098 977
United States (1880 census) 1,629 3567 0.003 33
Change since 1880 +261961 +3499 +0.095 +944
Other Countries
Australia 753 2161 0.005 46
United Kingdom 1,291 4264 0.003 28
Top States for GOMEZ by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 79,749 21 0.235 2,354
Texas 49,996 33 0.240 2,398
Florida 26,552 52 0.166 1,661
New York 13,514 89 0.071 712
Illinois 11,537 77 0.093 929
Top States for GOMEZ by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 49,996 33 0.240 2,398
California 79,749 21 0.235 2,354
New Mexico 4,153 38 0.228 2,283
Nevada 3,854 34 0.193 1,929
Arizona 8,543 43 0.167 1,665

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

Classification and Origin of GOMEZ

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 896 0.34
White (Hispanic) 240,289 91.16
White (Caucasian) 16,079 6.1
Asian/Pacific 2,741 1.04
Black/African American 2,135 0.81
Mixed Race 1,423 0.54

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

Meaning of GOMEZ in historical publications

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

Similar names to GOMEZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOMEZ.

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 GOMEZ

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