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The GERGEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 976 24115 0 4
United States (1880 census) 70 40258 0 1
Change since 1880 +906 +16143 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 2 259825 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GERGEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 265 2231 0.005 54
California 84 25904 0.000 2
Washington 53 12991 0.001 9
Wisconsin 45 18882 0.001 8
Nebraska 41 6256 0.002 24
Top States for GERGEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 265 2231 0.005 54
South Dakota 21 6082 0.003 28
Nebraska 41 6256 0.002 24
Montana 17 8299 0.002 19
North Dakota 12 8478 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of GERGEN

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

Ethnic distribution of GERGEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 950 97.34
White (Hispanic) 10 1.02
Mixed Race 8 0.82
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GERGEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GERGEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERGEN.

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 GERGEN

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