Gallion

At the 2020 census, 2,975 Americans bore the surname Gallion — 10,300th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 100,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,975
Rank: 10,300th
How common: 1 in 100,000
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

As an English surname of Middle English and Old French origin, from the personal name Galian, from Latin Galianus, Galienus, Galiena, a name probably meaning "man from Gaul, " from Galli + -ānus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.1%
Black, not Hispanic 14.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like Gallion

Try it on yourself

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.