Gilliland

At the 2020 census, 12,805 Americans bore the surname Gilliland — 2,741st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,300.

By the numbers

People: 12,805
Rank: 2,741st
How common: 1 in 23,300
Per 100,000: 4.3

Where the name comes from

Reduced Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Fhaoláin and Irish Mac Giolla Fhaoláin (“son of the servant of (saint) Faolán”), a personal name thought to be a diminutive of Irish faol. Compare the surname McClellan.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Gilliland

Richard Gilliland (1950–2021)American actor

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

Surnames like Gilliland

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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.