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The GWALTNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,059 9752 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 331 13265 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +2728 +3513 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GWALTNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 526 1845 0.007 74
North Carolina 294 3574 0.004 37
Illinois 235 5820 0.002 19
Florida 202 9658 0.001 13
Tennessee 181 4099 0.003 32
Top States for GWALTNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 526 1845 0.007 74
North Carolina 294 3574 0.004 37
Tennessee 181 4099 0.003 32
Indiana 178 4590 0.003 29
Rhode Island 26 6309 0.002 25

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

Classification and Origin of GWALTNEY

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

Ethnic distribution of GWALTNEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 260 8.5
Mixed Race 31 1.01
White (Hispanic) 26 0.85
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.26
Asian/Pacific 7 0.23
White (Caucasian) 2,727 89.15

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

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

Meaning of GWALTNEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GWALTNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GWALTNEY.

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 GWALTNEY

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