The GATEWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,999	4096	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	1,922	3079	0.004	38
Change since 1880	+6077	-1017	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	3	185858	0	0
United Kingdom	31	27412	0	1

Top States for GATEWOOD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	651	3747	0.003	31
Tennessee	446	2063	0.008	78
California	436	6871	0.001	13
Kentucky	433	1445	0.011	107
North Carolina	413	2843	0.005	51
Top States for GATEWOOD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	399	1184	0.014	140
Kentucky	433	1445	0.011	107
Arkansas	277	1394	0.010	104
Tennessee	446	2063	0.008	78
Oklahoma	233	2231	0.007	68

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GATEWOOD

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 GATEWOOD 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 GATEWOOD 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 GATEWOOD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	195	2.44
Mixed Race	169	2.11
White (Hispanic)	148	1.85
Asian/Pacific	26	0.33
White (Caucasian)	4,270	53.38
Black/African American	3,191	39.89

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

Similar names to GATEWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GATEWOOD.

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.