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The GINN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,928 4134 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 69 40360 0 1
Change since 1880 +7859 +36226 +N/A +28
Other Countries
Australia 378 4208 0.002 23
United Kingdom 1,185 4575 0.003 26
Top States for GINN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 667 3426 0.003 32
California 623 4639 0.002 18
Georgia 614 1719 0.008 75
South Carolina 519 1289 0.013 129
Florida 490 4161 0.003 31
Top States for GINN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 405 1090 0.014 142
South Carolina 519 1289 0.013 129
Maine 153 1573 0.012 120
Kentucky 383 1503 0.009 95
Georgia 614 1719 0.008 75

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

Classification and Origin of GINN

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 GINN 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 GINN 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 GINN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 810 10.22
Asian/Pacific 153 1.93
Mixed Race 103 1.3
White (Hispanic) 99 1.25
Native American/Alaskan 38 0.48
White (Caucasian) 6,725 84.83

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

Meaning of GINN in historical publications

GINN. GIN. Perhaps the same as Genn, with the G softened.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GINN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GINN.

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 GINN

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