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The GASS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,850 4736 0.003 25
United States (1880 census) 1,915 3091 0.004 38
Change since 1880 +4935 -1645 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 91 15400 0.001 6
United Kingdom 466 9299 0.001 10
Top States for GASS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 654 1392 0.011 115
Illinois 564 2336 0.005 45
Texas 518 4273 0.002 25
Pennsylvania 400 3906 0.003 33
California 393 7167 0.001 12
Top States for GASS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 654 1392 0.011 115
Iowa 142 2974 0.005 49
Illinois 564 2336 0.005 45
Maine 57 3452 0.004 45
Alabama 172 3459 0.004 39

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

Classification and Origin of GASS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 526 7.68
White (Hispanic) 92 1.34
Mixed Race 72 1.05
Native American/Alaskan 49 0.72
Asian/Pacific 28 0.41
White (Caucasian) 6,083 88.8

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

Meaning of GASS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GASS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GASS.

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 GASS

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