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The GAMA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,097 9630 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 9 89211 0 0
Change since 1880 +3088 +79581 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 24 45472 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GAMA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,291 3432 0.004 38
Texas 329 8162 0.002 16
Illinois 283 6727 0.002 23
Florida 195 13281 0.001 12
Arizona 90 9051 0.002 18
Top States for GAMA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 41 5582 0.004 39
California 1,291 3432 0.004 38
Nevada 49 6793 0.002 25
Illinois 283 6727 0.002 23
New Mexico 34 6507 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of GAMA

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

Ethnic distribution of GAMA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 543 17.53
Asian/Pacific 73 2.36
Mixed Race 39 1.26
Black/African American 38 1.23
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.48
White (Hispanic) 2,389 77.14

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

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

Meaning of GAMA in historical publications

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

Similar names to GAMA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAMA.

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 GAMA

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