The GILES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	39,002	805	0.014	145
United States (1880 census)	9,919	607	0.02	198
Change since 1880	+29083	-198	-0.006	-53
Other Countries
Australia	4,030	368	0.025	247
United Kingdom	14,507	408	0.032	316

Top States for GILES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,185	843	0.015	153
California	2,680	1280	0.008	79
Florida	2,222	945	0.014	139
Georgia	2,156	498	0.026	263
Virginia	2,001	427	0.028	283
Top States for GILES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	1,254	178	0.056	562
Maine	503	495	0.039	395
Alabama	1,644	448	0.037	370
Tennessee	1,714	527	0.030	301
Washington DC	164	358	0.029	287

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

Classification and Origin of GILES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	644	1.65
Native American/Alaskan	195	0.5
Asian/Pacific	137	0.35
White (Caucasian)	26,361	67.59
Black/African American	10,195	26.14
White (Hispanic)	1,470	3.77

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

Similar names to GILES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILES.

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.