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The GERRARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,850 14724 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 362 12390 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1488 -2334 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 618 2611 0.004 38
United Kingdom 4,977 1262 0.011 108
Top States for GERRARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 209 11741 0.001 6
Florida 120 14146 0.001 8
New York 120 15187 0.001 6
Utah 120 2362 0.005 54
Washington 86 8120 0.001 15
Top States for GERRARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 44 1302 0.009 89
Utah 120 2362 0.005 54
Idaho 26 6786 0.002 20
Nevada 40 5554 0.002 20
West Virginia 34 4861 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 GERRARD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GERRARD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GERRARD in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GERRARD by picking someone at random in Wyoming than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GERRARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GERRARD 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GERRARD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GERRARD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 57 3.08
White (Hispanic) 52 2.81
Mixed Race 20 1.08
White (Caucasian) 1,705 92.16
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 GERRARD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GERRARD in historical publications

GERRARD. See Gerard.

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 GERRARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERRARD.

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 GERRARD

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