The GALA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	984	23940	0	4
United States (1880 census)	13	83327	0	0
Change since 1880	+971	+59387	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	32	36614	0	2
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for GALA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	165	13785	0.000	5
New York	109	15751	0.001	6
Florida	102	15553	0.001	6
Michigan	67	17142	0.001	7
New Jersey	67	13395	0.001	8
Top States for GALA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	67	13395	0.001	8
Michigan	67	17142	0.001	7
West Virginia	12	9869	0.001	7
Florida	102	15553	0.001	6
New York	109	15751	0.001	6

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

Classification and Origin of GALA

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

Ethnic distribution of GALA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	542	55.08
Asian/Pacific	246	25
White (Hispanic)	152	15.45
Black/African American	21	2.13
Mixed Race	13	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	10	1.02

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

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

Similar names to GALA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GALA.

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.