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The GURNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,311 7149 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 1,422 4019 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +2889 -3130 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 919 1786 0.006 56
United Kingdom 3,612 1735 0.008 79
Top States for GURNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 420 6220 0.001 12
Massachusetts 315 2622 0.005 50
Maine 298 809 0.023 234
Florida 283 6491 0.002 18
New York 257 7075 0.001 14
Top States for GURNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 298 809 0.023 234
Vermont 61 1685 0.010 100
Utah 214 1335 0.010 96
Massachusetts 315 2622 0.005 50
New Hampshire 55 3057 0.004 45

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

Classification and Origin of GURNEY

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 GURNEY 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 GURNEY 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 GURNEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 67 1.55
Mixed Race 56 1.3
Black/African American 32 0.74
Asian/Pacific 16 0.37
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.19
White (Caucasian) 4,132 95.85

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

Meaning of GURNEY in historical publications

GURNEY. See Gournay.

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 GURNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GURNEY.

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 GURNEY

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