Gillespie

At the 2020 census, 40,456 Americans bore the surname Gillespie — 836th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,388.

By the numbers

People: 40,456
Rank: 836th
How common: 1 in 7,388
Per 100,000: 13.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish and Irish Gaelic

Anglicization of Scottish Gaelic Gilleasbuig and Irish Giolla Easpaig, both meaning "servant of the bishop", with the second element of the names being derived from Latin episcopus.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.6%
Black, not Hispanic 13.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)American jazz trumpeter
Craig Gillespie (born 1967)Australian film director
Gary Gillespie (born 1960)Scottish association football player
Mark Gillespie (born 1992)English association football player
Dana Gillespie (born 1949)British actress, singer and songwriter
Collin Gillespie (born 1999)American basketball player
Keith Gillespie (born 1975)Northern Irish footballer
Jason Gillespie (born 1975)Australian cricketer

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

Surnames like Gillespie

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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.