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The GAIL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,129 21553 0 4
United States (1880 census) 252 16266 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +877 -5287 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 15 63787 0 1
United Kingdom 45 26372 0 1
Top States for GAIL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 152 14296 0.000 4
Florida 63 22638 0.000 4
New York 60 26509 0.000 3
Ohio 60 18426 0.001 5
Illinois 52 22145 0.000 4
Top States for GAIL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 10 6094 0.002 20
Alaska 10 8640 0.002 16
New Mexico 24 5575 0.001 13
Colorado 45 10440 0.001 10
Delaware 8 13563 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of GAIL

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

Ethnic distribution of GAIL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 834 73.87
Black/African American 216 19.13
Mixed Race 29 2.57
White (Hispanic) 22 1.95
Asian/Pacific 18 1.59
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.89

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

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

Meaning of GAIL in historical publications

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

Similar names to GAIL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAIL.

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 GAIL

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