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The GAMBLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 32,377 981 0.012 120
United States (1880 census) 6,663 909 0.013 133
Change since 1880 +25714 -72 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 1,555 1048 0.01 95
United Kingdom 6,941 900 0.015 151
Top States for GAMBLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 2,376 292 0.053 534
Texas 2,240 1187 0.011 107
Florida 2,090 1018 0.013 131
California 2,013 1708 0.006 59
Pennsylvania 1,903 706 0.015 155
Top States for GAMBLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 2,376 292 0.053 534
South Carolina 1,892 318 0.047 472
Tennessee 1,203 773 0.021 211
Alaska 118 672 0.019 188
Kentucky 713 872 0.018 176

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

Classification and Origin of GAMBLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 544 1.68
White (Hispanic) 476 1.47
Native American/Alaskan 288 0.89
Asian/Pacific 130 0.4
White (Caucasian) 19,306 59.63
Black/African American 11,633 35.93

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

Meaning of GAMBLE in historical publications

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

Similar names to GAMBLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAMBLE.

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 GAMBLE

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