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The GUNNING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,154 9458 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 904 5951 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +2250 -3507 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 565 2869 0.003 35
United Kingdom 2,055 2890 0.004 45
Top States for GUNNING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 317 8337 0.001 9
New York 232 8150 0.001 12
Pennsylvania 230 6533 0.002 19
Florida 217 8525 0.001 14
New Jersey 199 4776 0.002 24
Top States for GUNNING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 32 4221 0.004 41
Massachusetts 184 4496 0.003 29
Washington 159 4548 0.003 27
Rhode Island 28 5394 0.003 27
New Jersey 199 4776 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of GUNNING

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 GUNNING 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 GUNNING 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 GUNNING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 144 4.57
White (Hispanic) 60 1.9
Mixed Race 37 1.17
Asian/Pacific 31 0.98
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.25
White (Caucasian) 2,874 91.12

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

Meaning of GUNNING in historical publications

GUNNING. An O. Norse personal name.

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 GUNNING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUNNING.

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 GUNNING

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