The GILMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,948	2770	0.004	44
United States (1880 census)	4,604	1356	0.009	92
Change since 1880	+7344	-1414	-0.005	-48
Other Countries
Australia	22	48693	0	1
United Kingdom	928	5589	0.002	20

Top States for GILMAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,180	2596	0.003	35
New York	968	1834	0.005	51
Massachusetts	741	1162	0.012	117
Florida	728	2731	0.005	46
Washington	535	1300	0.009	91
Top States for GILMAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	312	215	0.051	512
Maine	509	442	0.040	399
New Hampshire	447	362	0.036	362
Montana	123	821	0.014	136
Massachusetts	741	1162	0.012	117

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

Classification and Origin of GILMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	173	1.45
White (Hispanic)	170	1.42
Asian/Pacific	125	1.05
Black/African American	112	0.94
Native American/Alaskan	87	0.73
White (Caucasian)	11,281	94.42

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

Similar names to GILMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILMAN.

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.