The GORHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,113	4016	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	2,631	2323	0.005	53
Change since 1880	+5482	-1693	-0.002	-23
Other Countries
Australia	342	4622	0.002	21
United Kingdom	708	6860	0.002	15

Top States for GORHAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	613	4860	0.002	18
North Carolina	592	2030	0.007	74
Massachusetts	500	1868	0.008	79
Texas	453	4805	0.002	22
Maryland	390	1641	0.007	74
Top States for GORHAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	88	760	0.015	154
Maine	149	1654	0.012	117
Vermont	50	2138	0.008	82
Massachusetts	500	1868	0.008	79
Maryland	390	1641	0.007	74

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

Classification and Origin of GORHAM

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 GORHAM 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 GORHAM 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 GORHAM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	198	2.44
Mixed Race	108	1.33
Native American/Alaskan	29	0.36
Asian/Pacific	22	0.27
White (Caucasian)	5,894	72.65
Black/African American	1,862	22.95

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

Similar names to GORHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GORHAM.

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.