Gilchrist

At the 2020 census, 12,077 Americans bore the surname Gilchrist — 2,909th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,077
Rank: 2,909th
How common: 1 in 24,700
Per 100,000: 4.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Gillechrìosd (“servant of Christ”), from gille + Crìosd.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.8%
Black, not Hispanic 32.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Gilchrist

Adam Gilchrist (born 1969)Australian cricketer
Keir Gilchrist (born 1992)Canadian actor
John Gilchrist (1759–1841)Scottish indologist
Connie Gilchrist (1895–1985)1901-1985 American actress
Kaleigh Gilchrist (born 1992)American water polo player

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

Surnames like Gilchrist

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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.