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The GILLAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,547 16954 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 896 5989 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +651 -10965 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 363 4372 0.002 22
United Kingdom 2,311 2606 0.005 50
Top States for GILLAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 155 13023 0.001 8
California 142 17890 0.000 4
Illinois 132 10653 0.001 11
Florida 126 14741 0.001 8
Massachusetts 98 8574 0.002 15
Top States for GILLAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 17 8876 0.002 19
Massachusetts 98 8574 0.002 15
Nebraska 25 11488 0.001 15
Colorado 60 9433 0.001 14
Illinois 132 10653 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of GILLAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 67 4.33
White (Hispanic) 28 1.81
Asian/Pacific 22 1.42
Mixed Race 20 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.45
White (Caucasian) 1,403 90.69

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

Meaning of GILLAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILLAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLAN.

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 GILLAN

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