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The GUNTHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,069 4047 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 1,863 3175 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +6206 -872 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 402 3935 0.002 25
United Kingdom 296 12841 0.001 6
Top States for GUNTHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 912 1998 0.005 48
California 844 3501 0.002 25
Florida 477 4193 0.003 30
Illinois 454 2810 0.004 37
Maryland 425 1412 0.008 80
Top States for GUNTHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 425 1412 0.008 80
Delaware 62 2241 0.008 79
Colorado 251 2170 0.006 58
Utah 130 2226 0.006 58
Vermont 35 2804 0.006 57

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

Classification and Origin of GUNTHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 405 5.02
White (Hispanic) 139 1.72
Mixed Race 76 0.94
Asian/Pacific 52 0.64
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.22
White (Caucasian) 7,379 91.45

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

Meaning of GUNTHER in historical publications

GUNTER. GUNTHER. A tradition in the family says, from gaunt (Vor, allusive to the golden gauntlets in their arms ; but this is very improbable. Guutaric was an old Teutonic personal name, and Gonther and Gunter appear as tenants in 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 GUNTHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUNTHER.

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 GUNTHER

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