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The GEHR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 953 24584 0 4
United States (1880 census) 404 11408 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +549 -13176 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 2 259649 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GEHR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 287 5163 0.002 23
California 98 22802 0.000 3
Wisconsin 70 12272 0.001 13
Florida 50 30454 0.000 3
Illinois 50 25607 0.000 4
Top States for GEHR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 287 5163 0.002 23
Wisconsin 70 12272 0.001 13
Maryland 37 13931 0.001 7
Arizona 35 14470 0.001 7
Nevada 12 17561 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of GEHR

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GEHR surname.

Ethnic distribution of GEHR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 916 96.12
White (Hispanic) 20 2.1
Mixed Race 12 1.26
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

GEHR is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GEHR in historical publications

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

Similar names to GEHR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GEHR.

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 GEHR

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