The GILLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,054	4056	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	2,507	2424	0.005	50
Change since 1880	+5547	-1632	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	204	7421	0.001	12
United Kingdom	1,401	3978	0.003	31

Top States for GILLEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	801	2320	0.004	42
California	589	4871	0.002	17
Pennsylvania	560	2718	0.005	46
Florida	559	3679	0.003	35
Ohio	499	2784	0.004	44
Top States for GILLEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	74	1051	0.012	118
South Dakota	67	1571	0.009	89
Delaware	68	2060	0.009	87
Minnesota	313	1886	0.006	64
New Jersey	455	2044	0.005	54

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

Classification and Origin of GILLEN

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 GILLEN 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 GILLEN 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 GILLEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	323	4.01
Black/African American	136	1.69
Mixed Race	79	0.98
Native American/Alaskan	61	0.76
Asian/Pacific	57	0.71
White (Caucasian)	7,398	91.85

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

Similar names to GILLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLEN.

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.