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The GHENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,258 19797 0 5
United States (1880 census) 262 15807 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +996 -3990 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 44 28343 0 3
United Kingdom 274 13491 0.001 6
Top States for GHENT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 242 2565 0.006 60
Florida 176 10796 0.001 11
Michigan 94 13852 0.001 9
California 69 33042 0.000 2
Arkansas 68 4605 0.003 25
Top States for GHENT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 242 2565 0.006 60
Arkansas 68 4605 0.003 25
Connecticut 39 12425 0.001 11
Florida 176 10796 0.001 11
Vermont 6 13204 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of GHENT

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 GHENT 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 GHENT 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 GHENT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 961 76.39
Black/African American 223 17.73
Mixed Race 38 3.02
White (Hispanic) 24 1.91
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GHENT in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GHENT.

Similar names to GHENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GHENT.

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 GHENT

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