The GILLIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,438	1786	0.007	68
United States (1880 census)	3,612	1699	0.007	72
Change since 1880	+14826	-87	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	495	3251	0.003	30
United Kingdom	730	6700	0.002	16

Top States for GILLIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,042	370	0.032	322
Florida	1,508	1378	0.009	94
California	1,307	2423	0.004	39
Georgia	974	1102	0.012	119
North Carolina	890	1395	0.011	111
Top States for GILLIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,042	370	0.032	322
Maine	293	886	0.023	230
New Hampshire	267	711	0.022	216
Delaware	123	1123	0.016	157
Washington DC	73	891	0.013	128

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

Classification and Origin of GILLIS

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 GILLIS 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 GILLIS 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 GILLIS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	260	1.41
Mixed Race	242	1.31
Native American/Alaskan	177	0.96
Asian/Pacific	74	0.4
White (Caucasian)	14,815	80.35
Black/African American	2,873	15.58

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

Similar names to GILLIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLIS.

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.