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The GUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,676 10912 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 1,068 5164 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +1608 -5748 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 114 12715 0.001 7
United Kingdom 22 28383 0 0
Top States for GUM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 326 908 0.018 180
Illinois 189 7395 0.002 15
Ohio 185 7745 0.002 16
Texas 179 10372 0.001 9
Virginia 177 4822 0.003 25
Top States for GUM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 326 908 0.018 180
Alaska 19 5490 0.003 30
Kansas 80 4446 0.003 30
Delaware 22 6457 0.003 28
Missouri 145 5328 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of GUM

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GUM surname.

Ethnic distribution of GUM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 178 6.65
Mixed Race 45 1.68
White (Hispanic) 40 1.49
Black/African American 32 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.34
White (Caucasian) 2,372 88.64

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

GUM is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GUM in historical publications

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

Similar names to GUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUM.

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 GUM

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