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The GORE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 24,449 1326 0.009 91
United States (1880 census) 4,957 1246 0.01 99
Change since 1880 +19492 -80 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 1,138 1444 0.007 70
United Kingdom 5,044 1243 0.011 110
Top States for GORE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,378 494 0.030 295
Texas 2,235 1162 0.011 107
South Carolina 1,711 355 0.043 426
Florida 1,562 1364 0.010 98
Georgia 1,231 897 0.015 150
Top States for GORE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,711 355 0.043 426
North Carolina 2,378 494 0.030 295
West Virginia 508 548 0.028 281
Mississippi 569 807 0.020 200
Washington DC 104 617 0.018 182

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

Classification and Origin of GORE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 367 1.5
White (Hispanic) 330 1.35
Asian/Pacific 296 1.21
Native American/Alaskan 161 0.66
White (Caucasian) 18,002 73.63
Black/African American 5,291 21.64

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

Meaning of GORE in historical publications

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

Similar names to GORE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GORE.

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 GORE

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