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The GILLET surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 561 37374 0 2
United States (1880 census) 972 5588 0.002 19
Change since 1880 -411 -31786 +N/A -17
Other Countries
Australia 13 71458 0 1
United Kingdom 102 23766 0 2
Top States for GILLET by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 85 26228 0.000 3
Massachusetts 59 12975 0.001 9
Florida 52 29878 0.000 3
Texas 38 31939 0.000 2
New Jersey 31 30952 0.000 4
Top States for GILLET by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 14 10320 0.002 16
Massachusetts 59 12975 0.001 9
Washington DC 5 11620 0.001 9
Alaska 5 21332 0.001 8
Idaho 8 18899 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of GILLET

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 495 88.24
Black/African American 26 4.63
Mixed Race 21 3.74
White (Hispanic) 14 2.5
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GILLET in historical publications

GILLET. (in jjronunciation Jillet.) The name is supposed to be derived from Gilleste, a town on the borders of France and Piedmont. Inf. Rev. Edw. Gillet. When tlie G is hard, the name is probably a derivation of Guillaume, William.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GILLET

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLET.

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 GILLET

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