Gallup

Gallup is the 8,294th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,823 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 78,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,823
Rank: 8,294th
How common: 1 in 78,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

English surname, possibly from the verb gallop; or also possibly shortened from Galpin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gallup

George Gallup (1901–1984)American statistician
Simon Gallup (born 1960)British bassist

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

Surnames like Gallup

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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.