The GEER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,509	3834	0.003	32
United States (1880 census)	2,724	2228	0.005	54
Change since 1880	+5785	-1606	-0.002	-22
Other Countries
Australia	190	7901	0.001	12
United Kingdom	444	9646	0.001	10

Top States for GEER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	697	4255	0.002	21
Pennsylvania	586	2631	0.005	48
New York	571	3427	0.003	30
Texas	571	3943	0.003	27
Michigan	511	2236	0.005	51
Top States for GEER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	56	1043	0.011	113
Montana	86	1341	0.010	95
South Carolina	358	1831	0.009	89
Connecticut	251	1757	0.007	74
Vermont	34	2983	0.006	56

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

Classification and Origin of GEER

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 GEER 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 GEER 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 GEER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	509	5.98
White (Hispanic)	155	1.82
Mixed Race	135	1.59
Asian/Pacific	42	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	41	0.48
White (Caucasian)	7,627	89.63

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

Similar names to GEER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GEER.

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.