The GILLESPIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	41,393	758	0.015	153
United States (1880 census)	7,506	801	0.015	150
Change since 1880	+33887	+43	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	2,653	596	0.016	162
United Kingdom	9,623	626	0.021	210

Top States for GILLESPIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,563	1260	0.008	76
Ohio	2,432	484	0.021	214
Texas	2,394	1063	0.011	115
Pennsylvania	2,134	563	0.017	174
Florida	2,053	973	0.013	128
Top States for GILLESPIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	740	338	0.041	409
South Carolina	1,625	363	0.041	405
Delaware	259	461	0.033	331
North Carolina	1,949	581	0.024	242
Virginia	1,586	535	0.022	224

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GILLESPIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	646	1.56
Mixed Race	488	1.18
Native American/Alaskan	228	0.55
Asian/Pacific	137	0.33
White (Caucasian)	34,600	83.59
Black/African American	5,298	12.8

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

Similar names to GILLESPIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GILLESPIE.

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.