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The GAUNT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,463 11671 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 922 5847 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +1541 -5824 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 531 3037 0.003 32
United Kingdom 3,619 1731 0.008 79
Top States for GAUNT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 276 9853 0.001 8
Michigan 195 6491 0.002 20
Indiana 183 4375 0.003 30
Florida 161 11623 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 151 10237 0.001 12
Top States for GAUNT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 183 4375 0.003 30
Iowa 76 6147 0.003 26
Missouri 119 6263 0.002 21
Nebraska 35 8118 0.002 20
Michigan 195 6491 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of GAUNT

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 GAUNT 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 GAUNT 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 GAUNT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 64 2.6
White (Hispanic) 53 2.15
Mixed Race 48 1.95
Asian/Pacific 12 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.32
White (Caucasian) 2,278 92.49

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

Meaning of GAUNT in historical publications

GAUNT. Like John, fourth son of Edward III., some families of this surname evidently derive it from the town of Gaunt, now Ghent, in Flanders. De Gaunt and Le Gaunt are both found in the H.R.; tlie latter form is probal;>ly from the personal peculiarity of the iirst bearer. Shakspeare makes John of Gaunt play upon his own name in Richard II. in tliis sense : —

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 GAUNT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAUNT.

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 GAUNT

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