Gault

At the 2020 census, 5,829 Americans bore the surname Gault — 5,723rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 51,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,829
Rank: 5,723rd
How common: 1 in 51,300
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

In some cases, from Middle English galt(e) (“boar”), or related. In other cases, from Old French gaut (“woods”) (as in placenames like Le Gault), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.8%
Black, not Hispanic 7.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Gault

Willie Gault (born 1960)American hurdler, sprinter and football player
Scott Gault (born 1983)American rower

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

Surnames like Gault

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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.