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The GILLINGS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 475 42912 0 2
United States (1880 census) 111 29324 0 2
Change since 1880 +364 -13588 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 104 13858 0.001 6
United Kingdom 898 5734 0.002 20
Top States for GILLINGS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 88 16765 0.001 6
New York 66 23825 0.000 3
Michigan 60 18044 0.001 6
Illinois 24 44853 0.000 2
Texas 23 41507 0.000 1
Top States for GILLINGS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 18 9656 0.001 8
South Dakota 5 17402 0.001 7
Michigan 60 18044 0.001 6
Florida 88 16765 0.001 6
South Carolina 20 12989 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of GILLINGS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 284 59.79
Black/African American 172 36.21
Mixed Race 9 1.89
White (Hispanic) 6 1.26
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 GILLINGS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GILLINGS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILLINGS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLINGS.

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 GILLINGS

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