The GENTILE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,938	2230	0.006	55
United States (1880 census)	14	81837	0	0
Change since 1880	+14924	+79607	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	386	4112	0.002	24
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for GENTILE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,878	538	0.015	152
Pennsylvania	1,539	816	0.013	125
Massachusetts	1,350	595	0.021	213
New Jersey	1,298	590	0.015	154
Florida	1,254	1565	0.008	78
Top States for GENTILE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Connecticut	760	433	0.022	223
Rhode Island	226	572	0.022	216
Massachusetts	1,350	595	0.021	213
New Jersey	1,298	590	0.015	154
New York	2,878	538	0.015	152

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

Classification and Origin of GENTILE

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GENTILE 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.

Ethnic distribution of GENTILE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	300	2.01
Mixed Race	131	0.88
Black/African American	63	0.42
Asian/Pacific	46	0.31
Native American/Alaskan	16	0.11
White (Caucasian)	14,382	96.28

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

Similar names to GENTILE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GENTILE.

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.