The GERLACH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,181	4536	0.003	27
United States (1880 census)	1,227	4594	0.002	25
Change since 1880	+5954	+58	+0.001	+2
Other Countries
Australia	252	6118	0.002	15
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for GERLACH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	624	2396	0.005	51
California	536	5224	0.002	16
Wisconsin	470	1354	0.009	88
Ohio	467	2947	0.004	41
Florida	454	4421	0.003	28
Top States for GERLACH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	162	423	0.021	215
Wisconsin	470	1354	0.009	88
Minnesota	428	1293	0.009	87
West Virginia	96	2408	0.005	53
Pennsylvania	624	2396	0.005	51

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

Classification and Origin of GERLACH

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GERLACH 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 GERLACH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	99	1.38
Mixed Race	58	0.81
Asian/Pacific	32	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	26	0.36
Black/African American	6	0.08
White (Caucasian)	6,960	96.92

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

Similar names to GERLACH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERLACH.

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.