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The GAYLORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,151 6129 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 2,381 2547 0.005 48
Change since 1880 +2770 -3582 -0.003 -29
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 11 30339 0 0
Top States for GAYLORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 536 3700 0.003 28
California 507 5738 0.001 15
Florida 367 5545 0.002 23
Illinois 229 5819 0.002 18
Washington 228 3354 0.004 39
Top States for GAYLORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 42 2529 0.007 69
Oregon 157 2856 0.005 46
Washington 228 3354 0.004 39
Wyoming 17 4286 0.003 34
Connecticut 110 4252 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of GAYLORD

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 GAYLORD 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 GAYLORD 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 GAYLORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 367 7.12
Mixed Race 101 1.96
White (Hispanic) 66 1.28
Asian/Pacific 23 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.37
White (Caucasian) 4,575 88.82

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

Meaning of GAYLORD in historical publications

GAYLORD. "Has no reference to aristocratical gaieties, but means simijly jovial or jolly." B. Surn. i. 145. See AVright's Chaucer, 4364 :—

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 GAYLORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAYLORD.

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 GAYLORD

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