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The GAST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,415 7000 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 841 6291 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +3574 -709 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 15 63585 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GAST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 511 2644 0.005 45
Wisconsin 391 1647 0.007 73
Michigan 279 4172 0.003 28
Florida 261 7209 0.002 16
California 260 9821 0.001 8
Top States for GAST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 391 1647 0.007 73
Ohio 511 2644 0.005 45
North Dakota 28 3865 0.004 44
Indiana 254 2960 0.004 42
Iowa 121 3320 0.004 41

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GAST live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GAST represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GAST in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GAST by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GAST

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GAST surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GAST surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GAST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 57 1.29
Mixed Race 41 0.93
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.5
Black/African American 19 0.43
Asian/Pacific 16 0.36
White (Caucasian) 4,260 96.49

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GAST surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GAST in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GAST.

Similar names to GAST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAST.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GAST

The following words are slight variants of GAST that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.