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The GILLENWATER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,066 9729 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 196 19653 0 4
Change since 1880 +2870 +9924 +N/A +7
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GILLENWATER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 415 2321 0.007 73
Ohio 342 4713 0.003 30
West Virginia 336 944 0.019 186
Virginia 298 3345 0.004 42
Indiana 196 4589 0.003 32
Top States for GILLENWATER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 336 944 0.019 186
Tennessee 415 2321 0.007 73
Virginia 298 3345 0.004 42
Indiana 196 4589 0.003 32
Ohio 342 4713 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of GILLENWATER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GILLENWATER surname.

Ethnic distribution of GILLENWATER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 149 4.86
Mixed Race 48 1.57
White (Hispanic) 37 1.21
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.75
Asian/Pacific 7 0.23
White (Caucasian) 2,802 91.39

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

GILLENWATER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GILLENWATER in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILLENWATER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLENWATER.

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 GILLENWATER

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