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The GIESE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,574 4910 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 672 7608 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +5902 +2698 +0.001 +11
Other Countries
Australia 115 12537 0.001 7
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GIESE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,713 243 0.032 319
Minnesota 684 664 0.014 139
California 510 5372 0.002 15
Illinois 376 3316 0.003 30
Texas 345 5636 0.002 17
Top States for GIESE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,713 243 0.032 319
North Dakota 106 711 0.017 165
Minnesota 684 664 0.014 139
South Dakota 56 1933 0.007 74
Iowa 207 1692 0.007 71

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

Classification and Origin of GIESE

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 GIESE 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 GIESE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 91 1.38
Mixed Race 50 0.76
Asian/Pacific 28 0.43
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.3
Black/African American 8 0.12
White (Caucasian) 6,377 97

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

Meaning of GIESE in historical publications

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

Similar names to GIESE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIESE.

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 GIESE

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