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The GAYE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 900 25724 0 3
United States (1880 census) 166 22094 0 3
Change since 1880 +734 -3630 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 8 105431 0 0
United Kingdom 172 17969 0 4
Top States for GAYE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 81 19260 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 81 15125 0.001 7
Georgia 71 7793 0.001 9
California 63 29431 0.000 2
North Carolina 62 8637 0.001 8
Top States for GAYE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 51 2684 0.005 49
Washington DC 5 9196 0.001 9
Georgia 71 7793 0.001 9
North Carolina 62 8637 0.001 8
Maryland 39 11698 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of GAYE

Region of origin: Africa

Ethnic distribution of GAYE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 603 67
White (Caucasian) 240 26.67
Mixed Race 39 4.33
White (Hispanic) 14 1.56
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GAYE in historical publications

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

Similar names to GAYE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAYE.

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 GAYE

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