The GAITHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,255	3202	0.004	38
United States (1880 census)	2,013	2967	0.004	40
Change since 1880	+8242	-235	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	1	36769	0	0

Top States for GAITHER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,113	1133	0.014	138
Maryland	779	781	0.015	147
Texas	738	3221	0.004	35
California	672	4494	0.002	20
Georgia	655	1662	0.008	80
Top States for GAITHER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	132	466	0.023	231
Maryland	779	781	0.015	147
Alabama	649	1178	0.015	146
North Carolina	1,113	1133	0.014	138
Oklahoma	371	1330	0.011	108

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

Classification and Origin of GAITHER

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

Ethnic distribution of GAITHER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	219	2.14
White (Hispanic)	142	1.38
Native American/Alaskan	64	0.62
Asian/Pacific	44	0.43
White (Caucasian)	5,881	57.35
Black/African American	3,905	38.08

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

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

Similar names to GAITHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAITHER.

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.