Gil

At the 2020 census, 27,026 Americans bore the surname Gil — 1,274th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,100.

By the numbers

People: 27,026
Rank: 1,274th
How common: 1 in 11,100
Per 100,000: 9.0

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 86.7%
White, not Hispanic 9.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Gil

Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941)Hungarian-Indian painter
Gilberto Gil (born 1942)Brazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter and politician
Julian Gil (born 1970)Argentine actor
Emilio Portes Gil (1890–1978)President of Mexico
Bryan Gil (born 2001)Spanish association football player
Ariadna Gil (born 1969)Spanish actress
Carles Gil (born 1992)Spanish footballer
Frederico Gil (born 1985)Portuguese tennis player

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

Surnames like Gil

Also a first name

Gil has been given to 4,971 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1957. 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.