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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

'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.

Meaning of GILCHRIST in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic.) From gille, a servant, and Chriosed, Christ--the servant of Christ.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


GILCHRIST. (Referred to, but accidentally omitted in the body of the work). See under Gill in this Supplement.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GILCHRIST

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