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The GENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 528 39240 0 2
United States (1880 census) 71 39647 0 1
Change since 1880 +457 +407 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 4 184968 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GENS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 132 5184 0.003 27
New York 81 21723 0.000 4
Florida 46 32326 0.000 3
Massachusetts 33 21105 0.001 5
Wisconsin 29 27532 0.001 5
Top States for GENS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 132 5184 0.003 27
New Hampshire 12 11632 0.001 10
Wisconsin 29 27532 0.001 5
Massachusetts 33 21105 0.001 5
Alaska 3 26665 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of GENS

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

Ethnic distribution of GENS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 507 96.02
White (Hispanic) 11 2.08
Black/African American 5 0.95
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of GENS in historical publications

DIG GENS. See Digons.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GENS.

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 GENS

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