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The GAB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 135 118954 0 0
United States (1880 census) 19 74919 0 0
Change since 1880 +116 -44035 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GAB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 34 2859 0.005 45
Louisiana 21 14353 0.000 5
California 8 164481 0.000 0
Colorado 6 54532 0.000 1
North Dakota 6 11930 0.001 9
Top States for GAB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 34 2859 0.005 45
North Dakota 6 11930 0.001 9
Louisiana 21 14353 0.000 5
Hawaii 4 20981 0.000 3
Montana 2 38847 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of GAB

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GAB surname.

Ethnic distribution of GAB in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 127 94.07
White (Hispanic) 5 3.7
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

GAB is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GAB in historical publications

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

Similar names to GAB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAB.

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 GAB

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