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The GILKERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,072 22403 0 4
United States (1880 census) 375 12076 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +697 -10327 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 12 78511 0 1
United Kingdom 97 24063 0 2
Top States for GILKERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 187 1082 0.010 103
Ohio 172 5978 0.002 15
Illinois 77 12854 0.001 6
Virginia 64 8028 0.001 9
California 58 28688 0.000 2
Top States for GILKERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 187 1082 0.010 103
South Dakota 23 4141 0.003 30
Ohio 172 5978 0.002 15
Nebraska 25 8121 0.001 15
Kentucky 52 5742 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of GILKERSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 16 1.49
White (Hispanic) 13 1.21
Asian/Pacific 7 0.65
White (Caucasian) 1,029 95.99
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GILKERSON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GILKERSON.

Similar names to GILKERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILKERSON.

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 GILKERSON

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