The GISH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,866	7935	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	1,132	4921	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+2734	-3014	-0.001	-9
Other Countries
Australia	3	187202	0	0
United Kingdom	12	30034	0	0

Top States for GISH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	373	7669	0.001	11
Kentucky	354	1692	0.009	88
Indiana	306	2665	0.005	50
Washington	238	3315	0.004	40
Missouri	190	4106	0.003	34
Top States for GISH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	354	1692	0.009	88
Kansas	170	1955	0.006	63
Indiana	306	2665	0.005	50
Washington	238	3315	0.004	40
Wyoming	18	3946	0.004	36

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

Classification and Origin of GISH

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GISH surname.

Ethnic distribution of GISH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	58	1.5
White (Hispanic)	58	1.5
Native American/Alaskan	23	0.59
Asian/Pacific	17	0.44
Black/African American	16	0.41
White (Caucasian)	3,694	95.55

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

GISH is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to GISH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GISH.

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.