The GOUGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,408	3881	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	2,337	2604	0.005	47
Change since 1880	+6071	-1277	-0.002	-16
Other Countries
Australia	2,599	606	0.016	159
United Kingdom	12,691	464	0.028	276

Top States for GOUGH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	752	3955	0.002	22
Florida	534	3821	0.003	33
Virginia	453	2035	0.006	64
Texas	432	4841	0.002	21
Michigan	419	2758	0.004	42
Top States for GOUGH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Idaho	134	1288	0.010	104
Utah	186	1629	0.008	83
Maryland	399	1548	0.008	75
Maine	83	2557	0.007	65
Kentucky	262	2104	0.006	65

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

Classification and Origin of GOUGH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	744	8.85
Mixed Race	133	1.58
White (Hispanic)	130	1.55
Asian/Pacific	62	0.74
Native American/Alaskan	35	0.42
White (Caucasian)	7,304	86.87

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

Similar names to GOUGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOUGH.

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.