The GIDEON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,956	7744	0.001	15
United States (1880 census)	858	6184	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+3098	-1560	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	18	57542	0	1
United Kingdom	75	25037	0	2

Top States for GIDEON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	642	3754	0.003	31
Missouri	344	2325	0.006	61
California	319	8936	0.001	9
Tennessee	226	3528	0.004	40
Oklahoma	184	2769	0.005	53
Top States for GIDEON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Missouri	344	2325	0.006	61
Oklahoma	184	2769	0.005	53
Wyoming	22	3191	0.004	45
Kansas	119	2982	0.004	44
Tennessee	226	3528	0.004	40

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

Classification and Origin of GIDEON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GIDEON surname.

Ethnic distribution of GIDEON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	376	9.5
Mixed Race	116	2.93
Asian/Pacific	72	1.82
Native American/Alaskan	56	1.42
White (Hispanic)	52	1.31
White (Caucasian)	3,284	83.01

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

GIDEON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to GIDEON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIDEON.

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.