The GILDEA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,028	13712	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	73	38698	0	1
Change since 1880	+1955	+24986	+N/A	+7
Other Countries
Australia	78	17709	0	5
United Kingdom	559	8220	0.001	12

Top States for GILDEA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	300	4966	0.002	24
Massachusetts	241	3530	0.004	38
California	169	14212	0.000	5
New York	165	11262	0.001	9
New Jersey	117	8153	0.001	14
Top States for GILDEA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	241	3530	0.004	38
Delaware	23	5853	0.003	29
Pennsylvania	300	4966	0.002	24
New Hampshire	27	5753	0.002	22
Connecticut	62	7180	0.002	18

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

Classification and Origin of GILDEA

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	29	1.43
Mixed Race	24	1.18
Asian/Pacific	18	0.89
White (Caucasian)	1,946	95.96
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to GILDEA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILDEA.

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.