Gill

Gill is the 424th most common surname in the United States, shared by 75,535 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,957.

By the numbers

People: 75,535
Rank: 424th
How common: 1 in 3,957
Per 100,000: 25.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

As an English surname, converged from variants of Giles (sometimes through Dutch), Julian, and William.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 17.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.7%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Gill

Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837–1914)American biologist
Eric Gill (1882–1940)English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker
David Gill (1843–1914)Scottish astronomer
Orlando Gill (born 2000)Paraguayan footballer
Mahi Gill (born 1975)Indian actress
Vince Gill (born 1957)American country musician
Shehnaaz Kaur Gill (born 1994)Indian actress, model, singer and producer
Juan Bautista Gill (1840–1877)President of Paraguay

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

Surnames like Gill

Also a first name

Gill has been given to 1,274 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1956. 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.