Giles
39,371 people in the United States were counted with the surname Giles in the 2020 census, making it the 861st most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,592.
By the numbers
- People
- 39,371
- Rank
- 861st
- How common
- 1 in 7,592
- Per 100,000
- 13.2
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
Medieval English form of Old French saints' name Giles, modern Gilles, an altered form of Latin Aegīdius, from Ancient Greek Αἰγίδιος, derivative of αἰγίδιον (“kid, young goat”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Giles described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Giles
- Johnny Giles (born 1940)Irish soccer player and manager
- Herbert Giles (1845–1935)British sinologist and diplomat
- Chelsie Giles (born 1997)British judoka
- Michael Giles (born 1942)British drummer, percussionist and vocalist
- Ernest Giles (1835–1897)explorer
- Stephen Giles (born 1972)Canadian canoeist
- Elliot Giles (born 1994)English male middle-distance runner
- Harry Giles (born 1998)American basketball player
People named Giles with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Giles
Also a first name
Giles has been given to 4,732 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.
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.