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The GADD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,755 10657 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 530 9223 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +2225 -1434 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 554 2913 0.003 34
United Kingdom 2,455 2494 0.005 53
Top States for GADD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 423 3567 0.004 37
Kentucky 263 2244 0.007 65
California 201 13351 0.001 6
Tennessee 197 3937 0.003 35
Florida 187 10544 0.001 12
Top States for GADD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 263 2244 0.007 65
Utah 103 2942 0.005 46
West Virginia 71 3144 0.004 39
Ohio 423 3567 0.004 37
Tennessee 197 3937 0.003 35

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

Classification and Origin of GADD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GADD 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 GADD 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 GADD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 56 2.03
White (Hispanic) 36 1.31
Mixed Race 34 1.23
Asian/Pacific 22 0.8
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.44
White (Caucasian) 2,595 94.19

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

Meaning of GADD in historical publications

GAD. GADD. A-Sax. gad, a goad or spear. Halliwell quotes from an old MS. :

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 GADD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GADD.

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 GADD

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