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The GARDENER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,004 13838 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 2,730 2223 0.005 55
Change since 1880 -726 -11615 -0.004 -48
Other Countries
Australia 231 6606 0.001 14
United Kingdom 2,195 2734 0.005 48
Top States for GARDENER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 182 10795 0.001 11
New York 166 12345 0.001 9
California 163 16003 0.000 5
Texas 145 12296 0.001 7
Michigan 90 15024 0.001 9
Top States for GARDENER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 42 6066 0.001 15
Alabama 65 6652 0.001 15
Maryland 66 9092 0.001 12
Florida 182 10795 0.001 11
Georgia 89 7927 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of GARDENER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 778 38.82
Mixed Race 39 1.95
White (Hispanic) 28 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.9
Asian/Pacific 12 0.6
White (Caucasian) 1,129 56.34

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

Meaning of GARDENER in historical publications

GARDENER. The occupation. Its forms in the H.R. are Le Gardener and Le Gardiner ; also De Gardiuo and De Gardinis. Its principal modern forms are Gardiner, which according to Camden's joke denotes the gentleman I (E. Surn. i. 118) and the more plebeian Gardner: Gardener itself is rare.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GARDENER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARDENER.

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 GARDENER

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