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The GEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,080 13426 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 1,119 4969 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +961 -8457 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 618 2610 0.004 38
United Kingdom 1,287 4272 0.003 28
Top States for GEAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 179 7496 0.002 16
California 178 13786 0.001 5
Florida 165 10926 0.001 10
Massachusetts 120 6773 0.002 19
Wisconsin 117 7110 0.002 22
Top States for GEAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 66 3145 0.004 36
Wisconsin 117 7110 0.002 22
Massachusetts 120 6773 0.002 19
Delaware 13 10175 0.002 17
Ohio 179 7496 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of GEAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 247 11.88
Mixed Race 35 1.68
White (Hispanic) 26 1.25
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.43
Asian/Pacific 8 0.38
White (Caucasian) 1,755 84.38

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

Meaning of GEAR in historical publications

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

Similar names to GEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GEAR.

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 GEAR

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