The GASS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,850	4736	0.003	25
United States (1880 census)	1,915	3091	0.004	38
Change since 1880	+4935	-1645	-0.001	-13
Other Countries
Australia	91	15400	0.001	6
United Kingdom	466	9299	0.001	10

Top States for GASS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	654	1392	0.011	115
Illinois	564	2336	0.005	45
Texas	518	4273	0.002	25
Pennsylvania	400	3906	0.003	33
California	393	7167	0.001	12
Top States for GASS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	654	1392	0.011	115
Iowa	142	2974	0.005	49
Illinois	564	2336	0.005	45
Maine	57	3452	0.004	45
Alabama	172	3459	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of GASS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	526	7.68
White (Hispanic)	92	1.34
Mixed Race	72	1.05
Native American/Alaskan	49	0.72
Asian/Pacific	28	0.41
White (Caucasian)	6,083	88.8

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

Similar names to GASS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GASS.

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.