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The GERST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,877 14559 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 377 12031 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1500 -2528 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 5 140890 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GERST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 254 1372 0.009 87
Pennsylvania 157 9450 0.001 13
California 154 15593 0.000 5
Ohio 113 11393 0.001 10
Illinois 109 12067 0.001 9
Top States for GERST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 254 1372 0.009 87
Maryland 95 6020 0.002 18
Missouri 100 7063 0.002 18
Washington DC 10 5198 0.002 17
Connecticut 48 9484 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of GERST

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

Ethnic distribution of GERST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 90 4.79
White (Hispanic) 20 1.07
Mixed Race 13 0.69
White (Caucasian) 1,740 92.7
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 GERST surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of GERST in historical publications

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

Similar names to GERST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERST.

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 GERST

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