The GANT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,268	2490	0.005	49
United States (1880 census)	3,637	1687	0.007	73
Change since 1880	+9631	-803	-0.002	-24
Other Countries
Australia	242	6358	0.001	15
United Kingdom	1,478	3805	0.003	32

Top States for GANT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,129	2298	0.005	54
Florida	949	2370	0.006	59
California	822	3970	0.002	24
Tennessee	725	1343	0.013	127
Illinois	665	2123	0.005	54
Top States for GANT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	637	1254	0.014	143
Tennessee	725	1343	0.013	127
Washington DC	71	972	0.012	124
Louisiana	541	1285	0.012	121
Mississippi	342	1360	0.012	120

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

Classification and Origin of GANT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	310	2.34
White (Hispanic)	175	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	72	0.54
Asian/Pacific	42	0.32
Black/African American	6,407	48.29
White (Caucasian)	6,261	47.19

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

Similar names to GANT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GANT.

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.