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The GOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,850 6454 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,597 3634 0.003 32
Change since 1880 +3253 -2820 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 176 8475 0.001 11
United Kingdom 1,451 3873 0.003 32
Top States for GOTT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 451 6240 0.001 13
Missouri 367 2020 0.007 66
Texas 331 6039 0.002 16
Ohio 247 5694 0.002 22
Tennessee 223 3416 0.004 39
Top States for GOTT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 203 1231 0.016 159
Delaware 101 1393 0.013 129
Missouri 367 2020 0.007 66
Iowa 146 2794 0.005 50
New Hampshire 53 3407 0.004 43

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

Classification and Origin of GOTT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 160 3.3
White (Hispanic) 87 1.79
Mixed Race 75 1.55
Native American/Alaskan 40 0.82
Asian/Pacific 24 0.49
White (Caucasian) 4,464 92.04

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

Meaning of GOTT in historical publications

GOTT. Apiarcntly an old baptismal name. "Will lif Gotte. H.E.

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 GOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOTT.

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 GOTT

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