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The GUNN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,120 1475 0.008 82
United States (1880 census) 6,334 962 0.013 127
Change since 1880 +15786 -513 -0.005 -45
Other Countries
Australia 1,934 844 0.012 118
United Kingdom 8,612 710 0.019 188
Top States for GUNN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,058 1224 0.010 99
California 1,736 1851 0.005 51
Florida 1,499 1370 0.009 94
Georgia 1,314 814 0.016 161
Alabama 1,061 707 0.024 239
Top States for GUNN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 797 542 0.028 280
Alabama 1,061 707 0.024 239
Georgia 1,314 814 0.016 161
Utah 328 908 0.015 147
Tennessee 823 1057 0.014 145

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

Classification and Origin of GUNN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 354 1.6
White (Hispanic) 347 1.57
Asian/Pacific 164 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 122 0.55
White (Caucasian) 15,584 70.45
Black/African American 5,550 25.09

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

Meaning of GUNN in historical publications

GUNN. GUN. An ancient personal name, or rather a contraction of one, such as Gundebert, Gundric, or Guudbald.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GUNN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUNN.

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 GUNN

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