The surname Gaw
A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 1,731 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex G000
Origin
Scottish Gaelic origin
From Scottish Gaelic gall (“foreigner or stranger”), meaning: * (Ireland) a person from Wales or England who immigrated after the Norman invasion, or * (Scotland) a person from Scandinavia or the English-speaking lowlands.
One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,731 people named Gaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 178,363 Americans. That is down 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,753.
Who is named Gaw
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
71% of people named Gaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 71%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 23%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Gaw has the Soundex code G000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G000.
Other Scottish Gaelic surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Gaw come from?
- From Scottish Gaelic gall (“foreigner or stranger”), meaning: * (Ireland) a person from Wales or England who immigrated after the Norman invasion, or * (Scotland) a person from Scandinavia or the English-speaking lowlands.
- How common is the surname Gaw?
- 1,731 people in the United States had the surname Gaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,363 Americans. It ranked 16,575th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Gaw?
- In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Gaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- Is the surname Gaw getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,753 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,731 in 2010, down 1.3%.