Gilligan

At the 2020 census, 5,567 Americans bore the surname Gilligan — 5,959th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 53,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,567
Rank: 5,959th
How common: 1 in 53,700
Per 100,000: 1.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Gilligan

Vince Gilligan (born 1967)American writer, producer, and director
Carol Gilligan (born 1936)American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
John J. Gilligan (1921–2013)American politician, governor of Ohio

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

Surnames like Gilligan

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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.