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The GILLIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 18,438 1786 0.007 68
United States (1880 census) 3,612 1699 0.007 72
Change since 1880 +14826 -87 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 495 3251 0.003 30
United Kingdom 730 6700 0.002 16
Top States for GILLIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 2,042 370 0.032 322
Florida 1,508 1378 0.009 94
California 1,307 2423 0.004 39
Georgia 974 1102 0.012 119
North Carolina 890 1395 0.011 111
Top States for GILLIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 2,042 370 0.032 322
Maine 293 886 0.023 230
New Hampshire 267 711 0.022 216
Delaware 123 1123 0.016 157
Washington DC 73 891 0.013 128

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

Classification and Origin of GILLIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 260 1.41
Mixed Race 242 1.31
Native American/Alaskan 177 0.96
Asian/Pacific 74 0.4
White (Caucasian) 14,815 80.35
Black/African American 2,873 15.58

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

Meaning of GILLIS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GILLIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLIS.

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 GILLIS

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