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The GERSHMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 690 31658 0 3
United States (1880 census) -1 116105 0 0
Change since 1880 +691 +84447 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 2 259863 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GERSHMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 96 12719 0.001 5
California 77 19700 0.000 2
Massachusetts 68 7639 0.001 11
Florida 67 16407 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 67 13971 0.001 5
Top States for GERSHMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 68 7639 0.001 11
Connecticut 36 8264 0.001 11
Rhode Island 11 8525 0.001 10
Vermont 5 9801 0.001 8
New Jersey 60 10466 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of GERSHMAN

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

Ethnic distribution of GERSHMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 676 97.97
White (Hispanic) 10 1.45
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GERSHMAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GERSHMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERSHMAN.

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 GERSHMAN

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