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The GEARY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,168 2717 0.005 45
United States (1880 census) 3,349 1829 0.007 67
Change since 1880 +8819 -888 -0.002 -22
Other Countries
Australia 1,058 1561 0.006 65
United Kingdom 3,306 1886 0.007 72
Top States for GEARY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,185 1153 0.010 96
Massachusetts 1,099 765 0.017 173
California 846 3478 0.002 25
New York 738 2520 0.004 39
Kentucky 736 795 0.018 182
Top States for GEARY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 736 795 0.018 182
Massachusetts 1,099 765 0.017 173
Rhode Island 123 1228 0.012 117
South Dakota 79 1194 0.010 105
New Hampshire 126 1533 0.010 102

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

Classification and Origin of GEARY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GEARY 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 GEARY 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 GEARY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 383 3.15
White (Hispanic) 172 1.41
Mixed Race 140 1.15
Native American/Alaskan 60 0.49
Asian/Pacific 47 0.39
White (Caucasian) 11,366 93.41

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

Meaning of GEARY in historical publications

GEARY. An old personal name. Uxor Geri was atenant-in-chief inco. Gloucester. Domesd. Geiy, Geri. Domesd.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GEARY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GEARY.

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 GEARY

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