The history of your name

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

'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.

Meaning of GAYTON in historical publications

GAYTON. Parishes and places in cos. Chester, Norfolk, Northampton, Stafford, Lincoln, &c.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GAYTON

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