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The GUN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 186 91801 0 1
United States (1880 census) 530 9217 0.001 11
Change since 1880 -344 -82584 +N/A -10
Other Countries
Australia 33 35159 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GUN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 22 65486 0.000 1
Texas 15 57012 0.000 1
Florida 13 87280 0.000 1
California 12 130744 0.000 0
Michigan 12 71815 0.000 1
Top States for GUN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 9 13451 0.001 10
South Dakota 3 23657 0.000 4
Massachusetts 10 55169 0.000 2
Maryland 8 47941 0.000 2
Arkansas 4 30163 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of GUN

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

Ethnic distribution of GUN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 105 56.45
Asian/Pacific 41 22.04
Black/African American 21 11.29
White (Hispanic) 11 5.91
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GUN in historical publications

GUNN. GUN. An ancient personal name, or rather a contraction of one, such as Gundebert, Gundric, or Guudbald.

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 GUN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUN.

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 GUN

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