The GERALD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,994	6281	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	787	6641	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+4207	+360	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	3	186601	0	0
United Kingdom	208	16095	0	5

Top States for GERALD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	628	1008	0.016	157
North Carolina	482	2262	0.006	60
Louisiana	325	1863	0.007	73
New York	293	6424	0.002	15
Florida	272	6941	0.002	17
Top States for GERALD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	628	1008	0.016	157
Louisiana	325	1863	0.007	73
Washington DC	41	1420	0.007	72
North Carolina	482	2262	0.006	60
Mississippi	150	2374	0.005	53

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

Classification and Origin of GERALD

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of GERALD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	112	2.24
Mixed Race	81	1.62
Asian/Pacific	29	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.38
Black/African American	2,305	46.16
White (Caucasian)	2,448	49.02

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

Similar names to GERALD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERALD.

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.