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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

'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.

Meaning of GARA in historical publications

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

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.

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

Potential typos for GARA

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