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The GATH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 581 36381 0 2
United States (1880 census) 139 25032 0 3
Change since 1880 +442 -11349 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 106 13610 0.001 6
United Kingdom 261 13919 0.001 6
Top States for GATH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 121 6427 0.002 19
New York 75 23195 0.000 4
California 61 34106 0.000 2
Michigan 55 21521 0.001 6
Florida 32 43377 0.000 2
Top States for GATH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 121 6427 0.002 19
New Hampshire 13 10755 0.001 11
Rhode Island 11 12037 0.001 10
Michigan 55 21521 0.001 6
Connecticut 17 26654 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of GATH

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 GATH 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 GATH 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 GATH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 551 94.84
Black/African American 9 1.55
Mixed Race 7 1.2
Asian/Pacific 6 1.03
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GATH in historical publications

GATH. A corruption of Garth.

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 GATH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GATH.

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 GATH

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