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The GILLIGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,519 5749 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 2,238 2702 0.004 45
Change since 1880 +3281 -3047 -0.002 -25
Other Countries
Australia 693 2327 0.004 42
United Kingdom 1,773 3254 0.004 39
Top States for GILLIGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 653 2793 0.003 34
New Jersey 537 1603 0.006 64
Pennsylvania 466 3125 0.004 38
Massachusetts 463 1854 0.007 73
Ohio 331 4003 0.003 29
Top States for GILLIGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 49 2022 0.008 80
Massachusetts 463 1854 0.007 73
New Jersey 537 1603 0.006 64
New Hampshire 70 2515 0.006 57
Rhode Island 53 2891 0.005 51

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

Classification and Origin of GILLIGAN

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 GILLIGAN 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 GILLIGAN 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 GILLIGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 82 1.49
Mixed Race 46 0.83
Asian/Pacific 21 0.38
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.34
Black/African American 15 0.27
White (Caucasian) 5,336 96.68

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

Meaning of GILLIGAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILLIGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLIGAN.

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 GILLIGAN

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