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The GAINER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,719 6618 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,090 5086 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +3629 -1532 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 51 24920 0 3
United Kingdom 112 22833 0 2
Top States for GAINER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 760 2920 0.005 48
Ohio 436 3467 0.004 38
Pennsylvania 369 4459 0.003 30
West Virginia 282 1040 0.016 156
California 269 10402 0.001 8
Top States for GAINER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 282 1040 0.016 156
Florida 760 2920 0.005 48
Ohio 436 3467 0.004 38
South Carolina 122 4271 0.003 30
Pennsylvania 369 4459 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of GAINER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 59 1.25
White (Hispanic) 50 1.06
Asian/Pacific 27 0.57
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.36
White (Caucasian) 3,182 67.43
Black/African American 1,384 29.33

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

Meaning of GAINER in historical publications

GAINER. Probably a corruption of Gaymer.

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 GAINER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAINER.

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 GAINER

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