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The GERSHEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 187 91404 0 1
United States (1880 census) 14 81142 0 0
Change since 1880 +173 -10262 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GERSHEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 32 62431 0.000 1
Florida 32 44720 0.000 2
New York 28 58402 0.000 1
New Jersey 15 62361 0.000 2
Maryland 12 36192 0.000 2
Top States for GERSHEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 2 28613 0.000 3
Colorado 10 44174 0.000 2
Maryland 12 36192 0.000 2
Florida 32 44720 0.000 2
New Jersey 15 62361 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of GERSHEN

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

Ethnic distribution of GERSHEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 184 98.4
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GERSHEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GERSHEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERSHEN.

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 GERSHEN

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