The GOLIGHTLY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,092	13359	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	295	14453	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+1797	+1094	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	94	15042	0.001	6
United Kingdom	889	5790	0.002	19

Top States for GOLIGHTLY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	360	5941	0.002	17
California	132	19219	0.000	4
South Carolina	116	4449	0.003	29
Utah	112	2749	0.005	50
Florida	111	16579	0.001	7
Top States for GOLIGHTLY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	112	2749	0.005	50
Idaho	59	3385	0.005	46
South Carolina	116	4449	0.003	29
Oklahoma	67	6534	0.002	19
Nevada	36	6801	0.002	18

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

Classification and Origin of GOLIGHTLY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	245	11.71
White (Hispanic)	31	1.48
Mixed Race	29	1.39
Native American/Alaskan	25	1.2
Asian/Pacific	7	0.33
White (Caucasian)	1,755	83.89

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

Similar names to GOLIGHTLY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOLIGHTLY.

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.