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    The surname Gildon

    An English nickname surname, carried by 565 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G435

    Gildon: #39,004 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Gildon #39,004, 565 people Gildon: #39,004 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Gildon #39,004, 565 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gildon is more common than 76% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English gylden (“golden”), perhaps a nickname for someone with golden hair.

    Gildon is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 565 people named Gildon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 546,452 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 565.

    #39,004
    rank among US surnames
    565
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #37,145)

    Who is named Gildon

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    59% of people named Gildon identified as Black (not Hispanic), 35% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 59%
    • White (not Hispanic) 35%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gildon

    Gildon has the Soundex code G435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G435.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gildon come from?
    From Old English gylden (“golden”), perhaps a nickname for someone with golden hair.
    How common is the surname Gildon?
    565 people in the United States had the surname Gildon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 546,452 Americans. It ranked 39,004th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gildon?
    In the 2010 Census, 59% of people named Gildon identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 35% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Gildon?
    Gildon is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Gildon getting more or less common?
    About as common. 565 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 565 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.