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The GEDDES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,586 8462 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 68 41218 0 1
Change since 1880 +3518 +32756 +N/A +12
Other Countries
Australia 1,366 1203 0.008 84
United Kingdom 4,696 1333 0.01 102
Top States for GEDDES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 438 6306 0.001 13
New York 276 6965 0.001 15
Florida 218 8566 0.001 14
Washington 210 3520 0.004 36
Ohio 158 8347 0.001 14
Top States for GEDDES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 97 1835 0.007 75
New Hampshire 86 2208 0.007 70
Utah 137 2122 0.006 61
Washington 210 3520 0.004 36
Montana 30 4567 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of GEDDES

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 GEDDES 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 GEDDES 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 GEDDES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 230 6.41
White (Hispanic) 98 2.73
Mixed Race 46 1.28
Asian/Pacific 28 0.78
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.42
White (Caucasian) 3,169 88.37

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

Meaning of GEDDES in historical publications

GEDDES. Several places in Scotland are called Geddes-hill, Geddeston, Geddeswcll, &c. Hence Gedde is probably a personal name. According to the Statistical Account of Scotland, the family of Geddes, of Eachan in Peeblesshire, have possessed that estate for 1,300 j'ears !

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 GEDDES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GEDDES.

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 GEDDES

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