The GIBNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,190	12883	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	986	5515	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+1204	-7368	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	196	7707	0.001	12
United Kingdom	989	5314	0.002	22

Top States for GIBNEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	270	7490	0.001	14
New Jersey	254	3964	0.003	30
Pennsylvania	173	9008	0.001	14
California	153	16421	0.000	5
Massachusetts	148	5778	0.002	23
Top States for GIBNEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	25	3928	0.004	41
New Jersey	254	3964	0.003	30
New Hampshire	29	5752	0.002	23
Massachusetts	148	5778	0.002	23
Iowa	64	7379	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of GIBNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	33	1.51
White (Hispanic)	28	1.28
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.87
Asian/Pacific	13	0.59
Black/African American	5	0.23
White (Caucasian)	2,092	95.53

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

Similar names to GIBNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIBNEY.

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.