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The GOULD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 37,660 836 0.014 140
United States (1880 census) 14,061 413 0.028 281
Change since 1880 +23599 -423 -0.014 -141
Other Countries
Australia 3,363 446 0.021 206
United Kingdom 14,773 400 0.032 322
Top States for GOULD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,373 899 0.010 100
New York 2,946 517 0.016 155
Florida 2,659 708 0.017 166
Michigan 2,165 412 0.022 218
Massachusetts 2,138 327 0.034 337
Top States for GOULD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 1,000 182 0.078 784
New Hampshire 599 224 0.048 485
Vermont 292 232 0.048 480
Massachusetts 2,138 327 0.034 337
Alaska 184 346 0.029 293

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

Classification and Origin of GOULD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 550 1.46
White (Hispanic) 535 1.42
Native American/Alaskan 486 1.29
Asian/Pacific 200 0.53
White (Caucasian) 33,363 88.59
Black/African American 2,523 6.7

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

Meaning of GOULD in historical publications

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

Similar names to GOULD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOULD.

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 GOULD

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