Gillis

Gillis is the 2,014th most common surname in the United States, shared by 17,570 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 17,000.

By the numbers

People: 17,570
Rank: 2,014th
How common: 1 in 17,000
Per 100,000: 5.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.0%
Black, not Hispanic 15.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Gillis

Jamie Gillis (1943–2010)American pornographic actor and director
Ann Gillis (1927–2018)American actress
Duncan Gillis (1883–1963)Canadian hammer and discus thrower
Sarah Gillis (born 1994)American aerospace engineer, astronaut on Polaris Dawn space mission

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

Surnames like Gillis

Also a first name

Gillis has been given to 712 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1923. 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.