Last Name GORE

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: At the gore, at the gore-way. Gore, a small narrow strip of land.
Origin English, Jewish, Indian, Russian, French, Irish, Croatian, Romanian, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 1,326 (2000 US census) 1,111 (1990 US census)
Count 24,449 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 73.63%, or 18002 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 21.64%, or 5291 total occurrences, as black,
  • 1.21%, or 296 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.66%, or 161 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.5%, or 367 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.35%, or 330 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

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Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

American Surnames

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