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

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 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.

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.