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The GIFT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,437 17935 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 504 9614 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +933 -8321 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 8 31029 0 0
Top States for GIFT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 361 4690 0.003 29
California 89 27943 0.000 3
Ohio 85 16698 0.001 7
Maryland 74 8417 0.001 14
Texas 59 24952 0.000 3
Top States for GIFT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 361 4690 0.003 29
Wyoming 10 7653 0.002 20
Iowa 42 11731 0.001 14
Maryland 74 8417 0.001 14
Oregon 40 11690 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of GIFT

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

Ethnic distribution of GIFT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 72 5.01
White (Hispanic) 20 1.39
Mixed Race 14 0.97
White (Caucasian) 1,320 91.86
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 GIFT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of GIFT in historical publications

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

Similar names to GIFT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIFT.

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 GIFT

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