Stephen and Julie Gibbon (Gill) - Genealogy Information

Gill - Location

We are very grateful for permission from the Surname Profiler Project Website to include images and information on these pages generated from their profile research and data. Many thanks to Daryl Lloyd, Richard Webber and Paul Longley. Their site provides really useful and interesting spatial information relating to surnames. The site provides, for a given surname: frequency and ethnicity data; geographic information; and spatial maps from 1881 and 1998. It is extremely interesting from a genealogy perspective. If you have not tried the Surname Profiler Project Website I can highly recommend it.

International Comparisons
International Comparisons	Rate	As % of GB rate in 1998
Great Britain Frequency (1998)	34762	100
Great Britain Frequency (1881)	20944
Great Britain Rate (1998)	875
Great Britain Rate (1881)	774
Northern Ireland	419.38	48.6
Republic of Ireland	73.22	8.5
Australia	735.23	85.1
New Zealand	581.74	67.4
United States	455.13	52.7
Canada	899.02	104.1

Further explanations about this information can be found here.

Geographical Spread
Geographical Spread	Statistics
Great Britain top area (1881)	Harrogate
Great Britain top area (1998)	Southall
Great Britain top area index *	710
Great Britain top postal town	Harrogate
Number of UK gazetteer entries	9
County of gazetteer entry	More than one area
Republic of Ireland top county
Republic of Ireland top county index *
Australia top state	South Australia
Australia top state index *	145
Australia top standard statistical division	Murray-Darling, NSW
New Zealand top province	Marlborough
New Zealand top province index *	313
United States top state	Mississippi
United States top state index *	168
Number of gazetteer entries in Africa or Asian	2
African or Asian country with most gazetteer entries	South Asian
Number of gazetteer entries in African or Asian country named above	1

Social Demographics
Social Demographics	Statistics
Category of surname	Imported From Abroad; Other South Asian; Sikh
Mosaic type with highest index #	Asian Enterprise
Index of top Mosaic type *	798
% of people with a more rural name	93
% of people with a more high-status name	59
Cultural, Ethnic, Linguistic categories of surname	Other foreign, Sikh

# Mosaic is a social classification. More information is available here.

* Meaning of an 'index' : An 'index' shows whether the level of something is higher in one area than it is in another area. In this instance we are interested in whether the number of occurrences of a name per million population is higher in a particular area than it is elsewhere. Thus we compare the incidence of a name in the US state where it is most concentrated with the average level of concentration in the whole of the US; the incidence in Australia's top state with the Australian average; the incidence in New Zealand's top province with the New Zealand average; the incidence in GB's top postal area with the GB average.

* Calculation of an 'index' : If a name has a rate per million population in an area which is identical to its rate in a base comparison area then we say it has an index of '100'. An index of '200' for a the name Jenson in Ohio would mean that the name Jenson was twice as common, per million population, in Ohio as it was in the reference area, in this case the whole US. An index of '500' for Wong in Victoria would indicate that the name Wong was five times more common per 1,000,000 names in Victoria than in the whole of Australia. An index of '1000' for the name Penhaligon in New Zealand would mean it was ten times more common per 1,000.000 names in New Zealand than in Great Britain. By contrast an index of only '50' would indicate a name which was only half as common in a target area than in its reference area.

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