The GILLETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,076	6209	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	4,195	1472	0.008	84
Change since 1880	+881	-4737	-0.006	-65
Other Countries
Australia	1,552	1056	0.009	95
United Kingdom	4,060	1546	0.009	88

Top States for GILLETT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	675	4419	0.002	20
Michigan	520	2225	0.005	52
Florida	321	6268	0.002	20
Texas	316	6307	0.002	15
New York	272	7287	0.001	14
Top States for GILLETT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	62	943	0.013	126
Utah	147	2056	0.007	66
Michigan	520	2225	0.005	52
Oregon	159	2814	0.005	46
Idaho	58	3258	0.004	45

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

Classification and Origin of GILLETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	356	7.01
White (Hispanic)	135	2.66
Mixed Race	115	2.27
Asian/Pacific	33	0.65
Native American/Alaskan	21	0.41
White (Caucasian)	4,416	87

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

Meaning of GILLETT in historical publications

From Guillot, the French diminutive for William. The family may have come with William the Conqueror into England, from Gillette, a town in Piedmont, France. Gillette, the son of Giles.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

GILLETT. See Gillet. GILLETT. "In England there are numerous families who write their name Gillett and Gillot, all of French extraction ; the former at Glastonbury, Exeter, aud Banbury ; the latter at Birmingham aud Sheffield. It is probable tliat these names, as well as Jellett and Guillot, have all been originally the same, namely Gillot, the diminutive of Gilles, the French form of Giles." Ulster Journal of Archseology — SBcl duVifo.

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 GILLETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLETT.

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.