The GARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	565	37145	0	2
United States (1880 census)	41	54871	0	1
Change since 1880	+524	+17726	+N/A	+1
Other Countries
Australia	44	28360	0	3
United Kingdom	134	20784	0	3

Top States for GARA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	85	11406	0.001	10
New York	63	28287	0.000	3
California	62	34672	0.000	2
Illinois	52	25022	0.000	4
Pennsylvania	46	29563	0.000	4
Top States for GARA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	7	9987	0.001	14
New Jersey	85	11406	0.001	10
Connecticut	28	16792	0.001	8
New Mexico	10	13405	0.001	5
Mississippi	14	11780	0.000	5

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GARA

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Ethnic distribution of GARA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	455	80.53
White (Hispanic)	65	11.5
Asian/Pacific	24	4.25
Black/African American	12	2.12
Mixed Race	9	1.59
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to GARA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARA.

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.