Last Name GAYTAN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, Spanish

Rank	3,224 (2000 US census)	4,937 (1990 US census)

Count	10,164 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

3.91%, or 397 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.22%, or 22 total occurrences, as black,
0.31%, or 32 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.23%, or 23 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.11%, or 11 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
95.23%, or 9679 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...