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    The surname Gillingham

    An English place surname, carried by 1,959 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈdʒɪ.lɪŋ.əm/ 3 syllables Soundex G452

    Gillingham: #15,063 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gillingham #15,063, 1,959 people Gillingham: #15,063 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gillingham #15,063, 1,959 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gillingham is more common than 90.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name *Gylla + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).

    Gillingham is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 1,959 people named Gillingham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 157,604 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,844.

    #15,063
    rank among US surnames
    1,959
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #14,771)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,056Goetsch1,961157,443
    #15,060Bien1,960157,523
    #15,063Yohn1,959157,604
    #15,066Mitra1,958157,684

    Who is named Gillingham

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

    96% of people named Gillingham identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Gillingham

    Gillingham has the Soundex code G452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G452.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gillingham come from?
    From the Old English personal name *Gylla + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).
    How common is the surname Gillingham?
    1,959 people in the United States had the surname Gillingham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 157,604 Americans. It ranked 15,063rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gillingham?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gillingham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as two or more races.
    How do you pronounce Gillingham?
    Gillingham is /ˈdʒɪ.lɪŋ.əm/, 3 syllables.
    What type of surname is Gillingham?
    Gillingham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Gillingham getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,844 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,959 in 2010, up 6.2%.