The GAYTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,366	12096	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	225	17676	0	4
Change since 1880	+2141	+5580	+N/A	+5
Other Countries
Australia	119	12188	0.001	7
United Kingdom	624	7554	0.001	14

Top States for GAYTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	327	8935	0.001	10
Georgia	313	3201	0.004	38
Texas	266	7705	0.001	13
Illinois	225	6343	0.002	18
New York	155	13414	0.001	8
Top States for GAYTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	65	3316	0.005	51
North Dakota	28	4465	0.004	44
Georgia	313	3201	0.004	38
South Dakota	25	5783	0.003	33
Illinois	225	6343	0.002	18

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

Classification and Origin of GAYTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	601	25.4
Black/African American	472	19.95
Native American/Alaskan	106	4.48
Mixed Race	74	3.13
Asian/Pacific	16	0.68
White (Caucasian)	1,097	46.37

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

Similar names to GAYTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAYTON.

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.