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The GULL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 998 23683 0 4
United States (1880 census) 206 18859 0 4
Change since 1880 +792 -4824 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 102 14104 0.001 6
United Kingdom 437 9771 0.001 10
Top States for GULL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 242 1392 0.011 108
California 95 25919 0.000 3
Idaho 49 4078 0.004 38
Iowa 49 10045 0.002 17
Florida 44 36963 0.000 3
Top States for GULL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 242 1392 0.011 108
Idaho 49 4078 0.004 38
Iowa 49 10045 0.002 17
Nebraska 24 12048 0.001 14
Maryland 42 13947 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of GULL

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 GULL 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 GULL 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 GULL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 926 92.79
Asian/Pacific 22 2.2
Mixed Race 19 1.9
White (Hispanic) 19 1.9
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GULL in historical publications

GULL. Is susceptible of various interpretations, as: 1. The bird; 2. A dupe or fool, very common in the old dramatists, ancl still in use; 3. One of the numerous modifications of Guillaume, William; 4. See Guille.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GULL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GULL.

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 GULL

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