The GILFILLAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,238	20041	0	5
United States (1880 census)	349	12744	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+889	-7297	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	198	7632	0.001	12
United Kingdom	1,247	4363	0.003	27

Top States for GILFILLAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	114	19701	0.000	3
Illinois	104	12189	0.001	8
New Jersey	95	9858	0.001	11
South Carolina	95	4704	0.002	24
Florida	62	24739	0.000	4
Top States for GILFILLAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	15	5947	0.002	24
South Carolina	95	4704	0.002	24
Vermont	14	5765	0.002	23
Kansas	41	7622	0.002	15
Montana	13	10319	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of GILFILLAN

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 GILFILLAN 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 GILFILLAN 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 GILFILLAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	20	1.62
Mixed Race	14	1.13
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.97
Black/African American	10	0.81
Asian/Pacific	8	0.65
White (Caucasian)	1,174	94.83

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

Similar names to GILFILLAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILFILLAN.

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.