The GAGNON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	20,567	1604	0.008	76
United States (1880 census)	970	5594	0.002	19
Change since 1880	+19597	+3990	+0.006	+57
Other Countries
Australia	19	53708	0	1
United Kingdom	36	27033	0	1

Top States for GAGNON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,922	200	0.046	460
Maine	2,090	36	0.164	1,639
New Hampshire	2,046	18	0.166	1,656
Florida	1,492	1224	0.009	93
Connecticut	1,354	154	0.040	398
Top States for GAGNON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	2,046	18	0.166	1,656
Maine	2,090	36	0.164	1,639
Delaware	918	57	0.117	1,172
Rhode Island	608	110	0.058	580
Massachusetts	2,922	200	0.046	460

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

Classification and Origin of GAGNON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GAGNON 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.

Ethnic distribution of GAGNON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	261	1.27
Mixed Race	253	1.23
Native American/Alaskan	154	0.75
Asian/Pacific	107	0.52
Black/African American	43	0.21
White (Caucasian)	19,748	96.02

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

Similar names to GAGNON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAGNON.

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.