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The GILLUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,920 6371 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,238 4554 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +3682 -1817 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 7 110703 0 0
United Kingdom 87 24595 0 2
Top States for GILLUM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 540 4304 0.003 26
Ohio 504 3010 0.004 44
Kentucky 441 1402 0.011 109
California 367 7950 0.001 11
Florida 257 8068 0.002 16
Top States for GILLUM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 441 1402 0.011 109
West Virginia 117 2218 0.006 65
Ohio 504 3010 0.004 44
Oklahoma 139 3560 0.004 40
Indiana 244 3437 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of GILLUM

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 GILLUM 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 GILLUM 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 GILLUM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 870 17.68
Mixed Race 90 1.83
White (Hispanic) 86 1.75
Native American/Alaskan 43 0.87
Asian/Pacific 19 0.39
White (Caucasian) 3,812 77.48

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

Meaning of GILLUM in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILLUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLUM.

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 GILLUM

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