The GILCHRIST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,210	2703	0.005	45
United States (1880 census)	2,885	2113	0.006	58
Change since 1880	+9325	-590	-0.001	-13
Other Countries
Australia	1,371	1200	0.008	84
United Kingdom	5,222	1197	0.011	114

Top States for GILCHRIST by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	846	3605	0.002	25
North Carolina	795	1557	0.010	99
Florida	691	3012	0.004	43
New York	676	2885	0.004	36
Alabama	645	1152	0.015	145
Top States for GILCHRIST by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	127	475	0.022	222
South Carolina	630	1064	0.016	157
Alabama	645	1152	0.015	145
North Carolina	795	1557	0.010	99
Rhode Island	89	1840	0.008	85

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

Classification and Origin of GILCHRIST

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	184	1.51
Mixed Race	177	1.45
Native American/Alaskan	46	0.38
Asian/Pacific	33	0.27
White (Caucasian)	7,841	64.22
Black/African American	3,929	32.18

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

Similar names to GILCHRIST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILCHRIST.

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.