Gaitan

Gaitan is the 4,609th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,469 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 40,000.

By the numbers

People: 7,469
Rank: 4,609th
How common: 1 in 40,000
Per 100,000: 2.5

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.0%
White, not Hispanic 7.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Gaitan

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala (1902–1948)Colombian politician
Carolina Gaitán (born 1984)Colombian actress and singer
Paulina Gaitán (born 1992)Mexican actress
Walter Gaitán (born 1977)Argentine footballer
Natalia Gaitán (born 1991)Colombian footballer

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

Surnames like Gaitan

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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.