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The GIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,427 18025 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 98 31945 0 2
Change since 1880 +1329 +13920 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 53 24279 0 3
United Kingdom 28 27703 0 1
Top States for GIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 818 3638 0.002 24
Arizona 103 5642 0.002 20
Illinois 87 14989 0.001 7
New York 75 24188 0.000 4
Texas 50 25834 0.000 2
Top States for GIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 818 3638 0.002 24
Arizona 103 5642 0.002 20
Illinois 87 14989 0.001 7
Indiana 32 18597 0.001 5
New York 75 24188 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of GIN

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GIN 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.

Ethnic distribution of GIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 108 7.57
Mixed Race 71 4.98
White (Hispanic) 67 4.7
Asian/Pacific 1,167 81.78
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GIN in historical publications

GIN.AIAN. See Ginner.

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 GIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIN.

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 GIN

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