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The GELB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,666 16001 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 27 65593 0 1
Change since 1880 +1639 +49592 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 15 63414 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GELB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 421 4219 0.002 22
California 208 11260 0.001 6
Florida 184 9307 0.001 12
New Jersey 162 5575 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 120 11352 0.001 10
Top States for GELB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 421 4219 0.002 22
New Jersey 162 5575 0.002 19
Washington DC 10 5196 0.002 17
Vermont 10 7890 0.002 16
Connecticut 44 9705 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of GELB

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

Ethnic distribution of GELB in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 36 2.16
Mixed Race 14 0.84
Black/African American 11 0.66
White (Caucasian) 1,597 95.86
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GELB in historical publications

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

Similar names to GELB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GELB.

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 GELB

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