Gaines

At the 2020 census, 42,617 Americans bore the surname Gaines — 791st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,014.

By the numbers

People: 42,617
Rank: 791st
How common: 1 in 7,014
Per 100,000: 14.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gaines described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 49.2%
White, not Hispanic 40.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Gaines

Rowdy Gaines (born 1959)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder, television sports commentator
Chryste Gaines (born 1970)athletics competitor
Steve Gaines (1949–1977)American guitarist
Boyd Gaines (born 1953)American actor
Cassie Gaines (1948–1977)American singer
Richard Gaines (1904–1975)American actor
Sundiata Gaines (born 1986)American basketball player
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019)American author

People named Gaines with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gaines

Also a first name

Gaines has been given to 1,717 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1915. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.