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The GARGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 640 33605 0 2
United States (1880 census) 157 22930 0 3
Change since 1880 +483 -10675 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 110 13174 0.001 7
United Kingdom 481 9102 0.001 10
Top States for GARGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 128 14902 0.001 7
California 75 29860 0.000 2
Massachusetts 68 11506 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 48 28935 0.000 4
New Jersey 38 26197 0.000 5
Top States for GARGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 21 7137 0.002 16
Massachusetts 68 11506 0.001 11
Delaware 6 20573 0.001 8
Colorado 32 16487 0.001 7
New York 128 14902 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of GARGAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 619 96.72
White (Hispanic) 13 2.03
Mixed Race 5 0.78
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GARGAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GARGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARGAN.

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 GARGAN

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