The GRESHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,173	2963	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	2,015	2963	0.004	40
Change since 1880	+9158	0	0	+1
Other Countries
Australia	268	5780	0.002	16
United Kingdom	663	7220	0.001	14

Top States for GRESHAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	1,937	596	0.024	237
Texas	1,219	2128	0.006	58
Alabama	633	1246	0.014	142
California	609	5071	0.002	18
Florida	538	4075	0.003	34
Top States for GRESHAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	1,937	596	0.024	237
Alabama	633	1246	0.014	142
Mississippi	237	1820	0.008	83
South Carolina	310	2178	0.008	77
Tennessee	422	2158	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 GRESHAM live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GRESHAM represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GRESHAM in Georgia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GRESHAM by picking someone at random in Georgia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GRESHAM

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 GRESHAM 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 GRESHAM 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 GRESHAM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	187	1.67
Mixed Race	177	1.58
Asian/Pacific	49	0.44
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.36
White (Caucasian)	7,083	63.39
Black/African American	3,637	32.55

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

Similar names to GRESHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRESHAM.

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.