The GEIGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,785	1503	0.008	81
United States (1880 census)	4,587	1357	0.009	92
Change since 1880	+17198	-146	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	226	6756	0.001	14
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for GEIGER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	2,065	585	0.017	168
Florida	2,034	988	0.013	127
Ohio	1,766	708	0.016	156
California	1,387	2272	0.004	41
Wisconsin	1,257	379	0.023	234
Top States for GEIGER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	250	209	0.039	389
Wisconsin	1,257	379	0.023	234
Pennsylvania	2,065	585	0.017	168
Ohio	1,766	708	0.016	156
South Carolina	571	1165	0.014	142

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

Classification and Origin of GEIGER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GEIGER 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.

Ethnic distribution of GEIGER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	261	1.2
Mixed Race	240	1.1
Asian/Pacific	76	0.35
Native American/Alaskan	48	0.22
White (Caucasian)	19,959	91.62
Black/African American	1,200	5.51

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

Similar names to GEIGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GEIGER.

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.