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The GOEWEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 507 40622 0 2
United States (1880 census) 115 28717 0 2
Change since 1880 +392 -11905 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GOEWEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 102 11804 0.001 8
Massachusetts 85 8509 0.001 13
New York 64 25679 0.000 3
Connecticut 19 22370 0.001 6
California 18 96807 0.000 1
Top States for GOEWEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 15 5407 0.002 25
Massachusetts 85 8509 0.001 13
Illinois 102 11804 0.001 8
Rhode Island 7 16024 0.001 7
New Hampshire 8 15751 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of GOEWEY

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

Ethnic distribution of GOEWEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 491 96.84
White (Hispanic) 8 1.58
Mixed Race 5 0.99
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of GOEWEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GOEWEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOEWEY.

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 GOEWEY

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