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The GILBERTSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,533 3818 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 1,435 3984 0.003 29
Change since 1880 +7098 +166 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 307 5088 0.002 19
United Kingdom 1,193 4543 0.003 26
Top States for GILBERTSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 2,033 158 0.041 413
Wisconsin 2,002 188 0.037 373
California 533 5095 0.002 16
Washington 464 1481 0.008 79
North Dakota 331 120 0.052 515
Top States for GILBERTSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 331 120 0.052 515
Minnesota 2,033 158 0.041 413
Wisconsin 2,002 188 0.037 373
South Dakota 181 347 0.024 240
Montana 142 675 0.016 157

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

Classification and Origin of GILBERTSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 106 1.24
White (Hispanic) 83 0.97
Asian/Pacific 44 0.52
Black/African American 28 0.33
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.26
White (Caucasian) 8,250 96.68

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

Meaning of GILBERTSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILBERTSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILBERTSON.

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 GILBERTSON

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